Putters Gourmet Pizza and Fun Center

This past weekend, my friends and I decided to go to Putters! Putters is basically a fun center that offers pizza, I guess? It has arcade games, 18 holes of mini golf, laser tag, and a little party area. There were a couple birthday parties going on in the time we were there. We decided to do mini golf because it was cheaper than laser tag ($11 for 45 minutes). The student price for mini golf was $5.50 and the regular price was $6.50. Needless to say, we took advantage of the one dollar discount.

The mini golf was cute, there were little waterfalls and "sand pits," sometimes I would even forget that I was playing indoors. They even had nets so you could fish out your balls when they would fly into the pond! It actually took surprisingly long to finish all of the holes, but it was really fun! There were quite a lot of people playing the same time as us, so there was a lot of "hole jumping" (skipping around to different holes to avoid waiting).

Our scores! We never found out who won.

After finishing all the holes, we played some arcade and had fun (little kid style). Not quite sure if I would recommend this place, only because I am not one for laser tag or mini golf (heh), but if you are this might be the best place in Eugene. It gets extra points in my book just because it is indoors and knowing how much Oregon rains, this is a very good thing.

Addi's Diner

Last Sunday, we finally took a highly anticipated trip to Addi's Diner in Springfield, Oregon! Last year,  I heard a lot of good things about Addi's and their outrageous pancakes that I knew I had to go. Unfortunately, I never got around to it last year, so I finally got to go! Yay!

First off, Addi's Diner has the ambience of an old school 50's diner. Decked out with an old cash register, license plates on the walls, and even old parking meters on the tables.

The prices here are unbeatable! Especially for the $4.25 Hot Cakes!!! It will literally take four people to finish this pancake! It is amazingly huge, so the five of us decided to get our own dishes and just share the infamous pancake. I got a very uninspiring biscuit with gravy. I knew I wouldn't have room in my stomach for a full fledged meal and the pancake, so I went very simple. Other people's meals looked really good though! One of the tastiest things that was ordered was the Chicken Fried Steak with gravy, fried potatoes, and two eggs (sunny side up).

Chicken Fried Steak with 2 eggs and Fried Potatoes [$8.75]

My friend also got the strawberry lemonade which was pretty good. It was REALLY sweet, but the fact that there were actual strawberries in it made it forgivable. The best part was by far the fact that it was refillable!

Refillable Strawberry Lemonade [$2.00] 

 Now for the main event! When the pancake came, our jaws literally dropped. The thing was monstrous!

Hot Cake [$4.25]

Apparently if you finish one by yourself, you get a free t-shirt! Love this place, and I would return without a doubt. Friendliest service on the planet and one of the fluffiest pancakes I have ever consumed. I could have taken a nap on that thing! Alas, we were not able to conquer this monster even between the five of us (probably because we all had our own dishes anyway). Springfield always struck me as somewhere I don't want to be because it appears very dangerous, but I would risk my safety just to go get this pancake again.

Alton Baker Park

Since I have been back in Eugene, I knew on the one day of sunshine and happiness, I had to take a walk through Alton Baker Park. Alton Baker Park is a HUGE park with biking and running trails. It's actually really neat and very relaxing (and kind of dangerous at night, so yeah, just don't). There are a lot of beautiful plants and weird people just chilling on the banks of the Willamette River.  The reason why I love this bike trail is so much is because it fills me with so much nostalgia of when I use to be a student at the University of Oregon. Imagine walking through a forest and then all of a sudden you see this:

Autzen Stadium

 For those of you who don't know, this is Autzen Stadium, home of the Ducks football team. I spent pretty much every Saturday and Monday night of my fall term in this stadium because of marching band. As much as I loathed it at the time, I am really glad that I decided to stick with marching band. I was able to experience so many things, such as road trips, the Rose Bowl, and just the overall hype and energy directed towards the football team.

There are a lot of bridges in Alton Baker Park, almost to the point where I would get completely confused as to where I was. I enjoy going on the bridges and snapping photos of the beautiful Willamette River (which is apparently something you don't want to swim in).

Willamette River

While my friends were exploring the forests of Alton Baker Park, we found a big pond with geese everywhere. Now, I am not very fond of birds but I have to say the goslings were pretty cute. Well, cute until they all started chasing after us.

I love the nature of Oregon and how easy it is to just bike or run (not like I do either). Alton Baker Park in specific is huge and makes for a really nice stroll when the weather permits. This is something I  missed dearly about Oregon, the ability to just wander and lose yourself in nature.