Evergreen Aviation Museum, McMinnville, OR

We are staying at Olde Stone Village RV Park in McMinnville, Oregon for the last few days.  The RV park is reasonably priced at less than $30/ day with a Good Sam discount.  The park has nice paved sites with full hookups including 50 amp and good free Wifi and cable TV.  There's a playground, a sports court where we played pickleball, and a pool.  For garbage, the park has a trash compactor, which we've never seen at an RV park. 

The best part about this RV park, however, is its proximity to the Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum.  There's a path leading from the park to the museum, which we took this morning when we went on an all-day visit to the museum. 

The museum admission price is a bit steep at $27 per adult, which includes admission to the aviation museum, the space museum, and one IMAX movie.  With our AAA discount, though, we only paid $20 per person for the two of us.  

This museum houses the Howard Hughes' infamous Spruce Goose seaplane  which flew only once.  Sometime in the early 1980s, Dave and I visited the Spruce Goose at its old home in Long Beach, California, next to the Queen Mary luxury liner.

We moved from California to Washington in January, 1993, and during 1993 the Spruce Goose made its way by barge from Long Beach, CA to Astoria, OR, then up the Columbia River, and up the Willamette River until it finally arrived by truck in McMinnville.  The Spruce Goose was reassembled, painted, and installed at its new home at the newly-built Evergreen Aviation Museum. 

This was our first visit to this fine museum.  We chose to watch the noon showing of the 3-D IMAX movie about the Hubble Space Telescope.  Dave and I always enjoy IMAX movies, and this one was definitely worth seeing!

The newest addition to the Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum is an indoor waterpark called Wings and Waves.  The waterpark opened yesterday and looks to be a hit with anyone liking water slides and wave pools.  The difference between this and any other waterpark, is that the slides in this park originate in a 747 jet on top of the roof of the waterpark.  The waterpark admission charge is $30 per adult and $25 per child. 

  The water slides come out of the 747.

An actual piece of the Berlin Wall

 

Rhododendrons outside the museum

Cashmere, WA

My pictures are of the historic Pioneer Village Museum in Cashmere, a town on Highway 2 between Leavenworth and Wenatchee.  For a small town, there are several places to visit there.  The Cider Mill Tasting Room is located just south of town, the Aplets and Cotlets factory tour is right in town and has a gift shop featuring all their goodies, and Pioneer Village is located at the east end of town.   Dogs are not permitted inside the grounds of the pionner village, but RV parking is available.  Admission was $5.50 which included the fairly large museum plus the outdoor grounds which contained all the cabin buildings.

The museum housed a wide variety of displays.

Tomorrow morning we head back home.  We've had a enjoyable time visiting the Wenatchee area!  Thanks for following along!