We survived the Oregon VORTEX

The duck and turkeys woke us up but we slept in late until 7am anyway. We breakfasted on amazing pastries from the local cafe. Departing Elkton in slight drizzle, we arrived at Abacela for their opening. It's  a winery situated on a fault line so that it had different geology on different hills on which to grow a variety of grapes.  We were the only ones at the tasting room and got a private tasting and plenty of snacks which I'm sure were set out for the after church crowds. They had a mileage post of how many miles to France or Portugal or Spain where original grapes were grown. 

It was a short hour drive to the OReGon VoRTeX, just a half hour from our house in Jacksonville. It is advertised as a paranormal phenomena.  We were amazed for over an hour.  Really! balls appeared to roll uphill. People (including Judd and myself) appeared to shrink just by trading places.  Check the youtubes....we weren't allowed to take videos and the still photos don't do it justice. 

The House of Mystery has been mentioned on X-Files in the episode "Rush" and on Supernatural in the episode "Mystery Spot."

In the gift shop, the tour guide showed us pictures of other anomalies: photos where strange lights and colors appeared in people's photos. When asked, whom in the crowd knew the speed of light, only two respondents shouted out "186,000 miles per second."  Me, and one other science geek.  We earned ourselves  Smarties. I shared mine with Judd but was self-conscious that the little kid on her dad's shoulders saw me eating candy that she wasn't.  We did not feel the need to purchase souvenirs, but considered ourselves lucky to escape without shrinking. We were home on our Jacksonville porch in the sun for dinner.

You won't believe it.  Just come and see for yourself:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPHR2FAiVos

http://www.oregonlive.com/movies/2012/06/fact_or_faked_paranormal_files.html