Dine Cloud Nine

If you’re looking for a one of a kind restaurant experience, stop by the beautiful riverfront strip. Cloud 9 Restaurant offers the best in local organic and sustainable ingredients. They combine to create a fabulous menu, featuring dishes such as bourbon prawn pasta and Oregon Berry Salad. Cloud 9 offers an “off the beaten path” wine selection and a unique experience in an authentically homegrown Corvallis establishment.
Attached to Cloud 9 is the newly opened Downward Dog. Technically a bar, this chic establishment is laid back yet special at the same time. I could see this being a really great place for a Birthday Party! Downward Dog serves comfort food with a twist like gourmet three cheese mac and cheese and portabella quesadillas! Visit dinecloud9.com or drinkthedog.com for more information!
P.S. The Lotus Blossom drink is very spendy at 6.75, but worth it. It's a good thing Cloud runs such great late night specials!

Beautiful Nature Walks, Peavy Arboretum/McDonald Research Forest

Last weekend I decided that with the leaves changing, it would be a wonderful time to go for a mid-day walk. I hoped in the car and drove out to Peavy and I was amazed. It is that time of year when leaves blow across the trail and a swirling spiral of red and yellow leaves can be seen in all directions. For those of you that don't know, the forest is located right off of Highway 99. If you are in class and stressed like me, or just a passer-by I would highly recommend getting out to the woods sometime in the next week.

da Vinvi days

So the 20th annual da Vinci days festival is going to be back in Corvallis on July 18th-20th. For those of you have never gone to this before it is pretty spectacular. they have art exhibits, live music, and all sorts of other crazy creations that people have come up with. There website is http://www.davinci-days.org/ for those of you that are interested in checking out what is going to be there this year. I forgot to mention that they have robots this year.....and who doesn't want to go play around with robots, come one don't lie to yourself. Anyways, I am going to be there for sure so hopefully all you will do the same and head on out. I think the tickets are fairly cheap to. 15 for all day and like 8 for one day. Last year I bought mine at Corvallis Tourism on Harrison. So anyways, hope you can all go out and enjoy the festivities.

First Day

Well, I guess it would be wise to start off saying that I am new to this whole blogging world that I have heard so much about, but sometimes being a student calls for doing something new when you are bored. Right now I all to often find myself having way to much down time so....here I am. I look forward to having all of you read my writings, thoughts, and in general just overall reflections about life in the college town of Corvallis. For those of you who don't know this all ready, it is a quaint town located in the Willamette Valley in Oregon (at least we have good wine, thats always a plus) with a population around 50,000. Anyways I am excited to start blogging and have all of you comment.