Good eats

Last Saturday we made a mad trip to Sisters and Bend in Central Oregon - a bunch of us going to a) see the house my mom is interested in buying and b) to give our friends 96 year old mother/grandmother a sightseeing trip. When asked if she thought she could make it she said, "Sure why not I just have to sit in the wheelchair all day anyway" (because of her foot surgeries). What a trooper!

It takes a couple hours to get to Sisters and we made a re-charge stop at Sisters Coffee Company.

It's all rustic lodge inside with these impressive peeled logs going all the way to the second floor.

These barseat's backs are made of hammered copper.

And there's this beautiful river rock fireplace which I was trying to take a photo of while not making the patrons uncomfortable (the ones I'm trying to hide behind the plant).

*sigh* This one's not any better. But you get the idea. Lots of comfy seats to sit and enjoy your beverage.

Here's Doris enjoying an Italian Soda. Isn't she adorable?

There's also a piano against one wall and someone came in, bought a coffee and sat down and played some absolutely beautiful music.

I love tea so I bought some to take home. If you follow me on Twitter you may have wondered what I was talking about when I said "gunpowder" tea (it really was just too interesting to pass up). It's just green tea leaves rolled into little balls so really it just feels like gunpowder but doesn't taste like it. :)

Also bought some huckleberry. And I'm convinced everything that comes out of Montana (based on my several trips there) is huckleberry flavored. It is good, and since around here you have to go in the mountains and fight the bears for them, maybe I'll just stick to buying the Montana version. Visit the tea company's website here.

On the way back from Bend we stopped to eat at the Tumalo Feed Company. And there won't be any photos of the inside because of the "mood lighting."

Because we got there before 5:30 PM we were able to order from a special early evening menu and for $13.95 I got a barbecue chicken breast, rice pilaf, a skillet of fried potatoes, garlic bread (yes, three starches but they were so good.) and beans, plus an after-dinner bowl of sherbet (choices of sherbert, vanilla, root beer float or a nightcap). The food was really good...I'm craving some right now...at 9 in the morning.

The sun was setting on the drive home and the clouds (actually kind of rare for "over the mountain" from the valley) were looking magnificent...even from the back, back seat of the car.

I have to say...it was an exhausting trip, but the food was good! :)