American Snake

After our early morning run we took a ride down to IHop to have breakfast. A few weeks ago we had pancakes there which were amazing. Today we went for breakfast again, but this time we had a breakfast combo which included a plate of delicious fluffy French toast and another plate of traditional cooked breakfast. All for the equivalent of £5 per person. Bargain!

After breakfast we drove to our second state park of the week - Jessie M. Honeyman State Park. The park is situated a few miles from the Oregon Coast and is characterised by its crystal clear lakes. In fact, when on our walk around part of the lake perimeter, we saw around 30 people taking diving lessons as it was possible to peer quite deep into the lake waters. As we wandered around Andrea took hold of the camera again and demonstrated how far her photography has come on the trip by taking lots of good photos. Unfortunately Andrea wasn’t holding the camera when she spotted her first American snake. By the time I got there it had already slithered deep into the bushes. We spent the remainder of the walk banging our feet along the ground to warn anything dangerous of our approach. No snake kisses for us please!


Looking across the lakes


Andrea taking a stroll


One of Andrea's arty shots

In the evening we watched Forest Gump and then spent the next half an hour wondering what the point of the movie was before we headed into Eugene for a late night hot chocolate. The topic of conversation recently has turned to planning Helen (Andrea’s sister) and Matthew’s joint hen and stag do. We can’t give anything away, but all I’m going to say is it’s going to be a good one guys ;).