Oregon 2024 - Day 2: Yo Yo Museum, Long Drive, & Fun Pool

In the morning, we packed back up our car before heading out to the town of Chico.  This is where the Yo-Yo Museum was located. 

It was really smokey when we got to Chico.  We could even smell the smoke in this town.  I think that we were the closest to the fires when we were there.

It took a couple turns around the block to find a parking spot, but then we found one.  We then walked to the museum which was located at the back of a toy store.

Tyler was so excited when we got there.  It was a small space at the back of the store.  They had lots of different yo-yos on display.  They showed the ones that were used by the winners of the latest competitions.  They also had a huge wooden yo-yo that was actually used by a crane to go up and down.  

Tyler was looking at which yo-yo he wanted to buy, and someone came out to help him.  Turns out he was a yo-yo master.  He let Tyler try any of the yo-yos he wanted to and then he even showed him a couple tricks.  It was fun watching them together.

We also bought Tyler a t-shirt and a sticker.  Josh found his souvenir, a harmonica.  It was totally karma because of me laughing at buying Graham a harmonica for his birthday.

We then went and got some lunch at a local restaurant.  It was pretty good food, and I was glad that we went there.  We then got back on the road towards Eurika, CA.

Google Maps had us go a crazy route to our destination.  Maps told us that we would be on the road for like 138 miles.  Every one of those miles were not great.  The road was so curvy, and we had to go so slow.  The first maybe 40 miles we all had good spirits and thought it was an adventure, but after that we got totally over it.  We did find a little place to stop after about 100 miles to go to the bathroom and have a little snack that we shared of a shake and fries.

We then finished our drive of doom and got to our hotel.  It was a nice place, and our room had three separate beds and with Tony and mine bed in its own room.  

After we put our stuff in the room, we all got on our swimsuits and headed to the pool.  The pool actually felt pretty good.  It was half indoor and half outdoor.  It was so cool.  The hot tube felt really good too.  

Tony and I then showered and went and got us all some dinner.  We found that they had a Costco in this town, so we went for Costco food court pizza.  We got to walk around the store while the pizza was cooking.  We even got some ice cream for the kids.

The kids all got showered and changed so they were ready for dinner.  After eating Tony and I went to the grocery store to get food for the next day.  It took a couple tries, but we got all the food that we needed.  We then ended the night relaxing in our room watching some Olympics.