On Tuesday, Sept 10, we drove about 30 miles to the small farming community of Haines, Oregon where we toured their museum of over 10,000 items on display.

Oxen on display in Baker City.  The girls hopped on to check out how much fun they would be to ride on the trail.

Wednesday, Sept 11, was a long drive of about 80 miles through farmlands & forests around Baker City, Oregon.   We stopped at a nice park where the girls practiced their rock skipping skills.

Our friend Laura DeFord helped the girls learn how to skip rocks on the stream.

Here's what we look like going down the highway.  Every time we get in the car we sing, "On the Road Again"  but that's all the words we know to the song.

Here's Elmer & Karla following us.  We drove past some huge windmills.

We ended up at the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center where we saw some great displays of the early settlers.

Art Davis has become a fan of these two.  He calls them 'boys' so they call him 'Grandma Art'.  He just gave the girls little animal puppets.

They served us a chuckwagon lunch of stew, biscuits, & peach cobbler.

Of course, we had ice cream again for our midday snack.

For dinner tonight, we went to the Geiser Grand Hotel & Restaurant, a real upscale establishment dating back to the 1860's.  Still  upholds that reputation.

Hard to believe this week is almost over.