Diamond Lake - July 14 & 15th

While driving around Crater Lake, we noticed it was about 3pm, so started pondering where the days end may find us. We had heard about Diamond Lake, and it was only 60 miles away, so we thought we'd give it a shot. After Odell Lake, we were totally open to trying new places out again! They had a two bedroom cabin available on the lake and we were set!


If you haven't been there before, it's worth checking out! Huge lake with tons of rental cabins and boats! Nice big beach area and a beautiful setting!


















We got there and got settled, then wandered the grounds a bit checking things out. It is old (not quite as old as Odell Lake Resort), and I'm sure in it's heyday was quite the high-end ritzy place, but it seems to be stuck in some twisted mix of the 50's and the 70's and may be frozen in that time twist forever :-) That, however, is not an entirely bad thing - it gives the whole place a kitschy quirkiness that adds to the charm. The concept of a resort and how it has changed and evolved over the last 100 years will probably end up with it's own blog post by the end of the week as I find it to be a fascinating subject having now been to two "resorts" that may have been just that in 1920, but in 2010 don't quite feel like most know to be one. We have become very spoiled as a society :-) It is a beautiful place though and would be a great place to hang for a vacation! They even rent party barges too!

Thoughts of food and drink started popping into our heads so we wandered over to the lodge to check out the options. They had a "regular" restaurant, and a "higher-end" place as well. We chose the third option - the lounge :-) That was where we found Jerry the bartender - he was a hoot as were all the folks hanging out for the evening. Here's a pic of Jerry with a bottle of Grey Goose and a bottle of Rothschild. There was a vicious debate on good vs. bad vs. expensive vs. cheap vodka! I still say Grey Goose is tastier!











That's also where Terri's mood apparently struck her, and one vodka tonic turned into many...and a few more ;-) I'll not claim innocence here as I was feeling very little pain by the time I remembered that I needed to eat something (working on a four sandwich star day I was) having had 3 or 4 myself. The BLT got me straightened out, but Terri was on a roll and continued on until I talked her into leaving for s'mores at the campfire...which I built after we got back...and got roaring and ready for marshmallows at about the same time that Terri decided that it was time to sleep ;-) I did however have s'mores and the campfire and even took some night pictures of the lake!











Before she fell asleep though, I did manage to get one picture that I truly believe captures the essence of a) how much fun she truly was having and b) how many drinks she had. I will probably be in trouble later for this one, but hey, what the hell!











We got up this morning, and decided to take a long drive to Brookings...where we heard it would be 90...as Penn and Teller would say...BULLSHIT!!! But that's another blog post ;-)