Summer Time in Bend

We moved to Bend last fall in mid September. I was also very pregnant at the time, and we were mostly in transition-hybernation mode with intermittent appearances in the social setting, but summer time in Bend is whole new story! I love it. It is the most pleasant of temperatures every day mid 70s to 80s with a breeze. So amazing! We are frequenters to the river, and the pool, we recently took a ride around the old mill area on a group bicycle called a surrey-I have wanted to do this since I first set eyes on the wonderful invention and is now a must for anyone who comes to visit us. It is so fun, and the boys absolutely loved it! I will say that it confused me a little at first-no not the having to pedal obviously I was doing that-but there are two steering wheels, and as I was steering us around the first loop making sure that Sam and my steering was perfectly in sync with each other so we didn't hit passers by, or run in to any poles, I then realized his steering wheel was the only one with actual control, so duly noted. I have started trail running the loop by the river in the evening, and I couldn't ask for a more scenic run. It actually makes me want to run it-which is saying something. I like to take the boys to walk around by the bridge, and we usually get an ice-cream cone, and look at fish or the ducks, and all the people who float the river. The point is- visitors-come in and visit in the summer. 

The one down side is that there was a wildfire a few days ago. I first smelled it, before I noticed that the whole sky was a dust cloud, and the smoke coming from it was humungous! There was ashes falling from the sky for a day, and it ended up burning 600,000 acres. It has now been contained, but it was a little close for comfort for a day. 

But, because that it not an every day occurrence it should not deter anyone. So it took me a good 8 months to really enjoy it here, but I can say now, I am really loving Bend.