McNary and Bonneville Dams

I think everyone around here thinks we now only visit our house and actually live somewhere else. I swear we have been up, over, down and around this summer and anywhere, but home. But we did have a great trip over to see Jared and Gina. We always love going there and are glad they make the time for us to visit. We left on a Thursday about noon and stopped at the McNary dam and also the Bonneville Dam on our way over. It was nice to spend a little part of our trip with just our family and do some fun things with the kids. They loved seeing the salmon swimming up the fish ladder at the McNary Dam through the huge glass windows. And of course since that is part of Chas' job at work he loved seeing it too. Then we drove on to the Bonneville Dam where they have all kinds of fish ponds, a fish hatchery and some beautiful gardens and flowers. There is a sturgeon pool, and there are some 6 foot long UGLY sturgeon fish in there. But it was pretty cool when they would swim right past you and you could see them face to face. It was an awesome place!!! I have decided some of the free stuff you can find to do is better than paying to go see something cool! You just have to do a little more research to find it.