Silver Falls Run

23/11/12

This morning we set out for a run at Silver Falls. We had been batteling with Siri (the iPhone AI helper) over the past few days but she was doing pretty well. Up until today... We told her we wanted to go to Silver Falls and she took us down this tiny wee gravel road to the middle of no where. To be fair "Silver Falls Forest" was printed on the gates but we definitely weren't at the tourist carpark. We carried on through the road as it got narrower and narrower until we finally hit another tarmac road. We made an educated guess about which way to go and were lucky to find the falls car park. We did a pretty cool loop which took us past 10 water falls. It was pissing down with rain and Jesse liked the fact that we did caves in the dark and were now doing waterfalls in the rain. A couple of the falls were pretty amazing and you could walk behind some of them too, Photos ahoy (I was stoked to figure out the "shutter priority" setting on the camera):

All up it was about a 13km run and my legs were super grumpy with me. I discovered that my calves had pretty much given up being any good whatsoever up hills. On the flat and going down hill I was fine but as soon as there was a slight incline they seized up and tried to claw their way out of my legs. I resorted to walking up most of the hills which was a bit lame.

For dinner we went to another McMinamins. This one had a Church that had been converted to a concert venue but the main restaurant/bar was in a separate building. We had some time to kill afterwards and decided to ask Siri to escort us to a Frys electronics (kinda like a massive Dick Smith). She failed badly and sent us to some dudes house in suburbia! She was having a pretty bad day so we resorted to grid search and actually managed to find one! It was a pretty insane place, made even more insane by the fact that it was "Black Friday" which is some big ole shopping day thing here. Deals, deals, deals. People, people, people. All at about 9pm! All we really wanted was an HDMI cable which we thought would be simple. We found one and then wandered around a bit and then found more cables in another section, then another, then another. All up I think we found 5 different departments that sold HDMI cables with a wide variety of qualities from $180 to $5.

Back at the hotel we watched some of the Sherlock Holmes series and drank some beer before bedtime.