Brasada ranch resort(Powell butte, Oregon) – Highly recommended!
Brian and I have this tradition in our marriage that we will rotate to plan our anniversary celebration each year. This year I was supposed to plan sth but I successfully persuaded brian he should be in charge because this is a special 5 year milestone!
Our celebration of 5 year kind of got 2 rounds of celebration: 1st round with friends and brian’s families (they happened to visit us) at the Ninth Hotel’s Urban farmer restaurant last wknd; 2nd round just brian and I at Brasada Ranch Resort in Powell butte, oregon, which is where we are right now. : )
From the time we arrived which was about 1pm today till now 10:46pm. We have only been here for 10hrs or so, but we have crazily felt in love with this place! Allow me tell you why.
Resort itself is situated on 1,800 acres just northeast of Bend, Oregon. It provides unmatched panoramic views of the Central Oregon high desert and Cascade peaks beyond. The resort contains guest rooms inside of ranch house, also ~100 different cabinets. Facilities in this place includes: 1 adult pool, 1 kids pool with slide, 2 tennis court, 1 19 holes golf course, 1 sand volleyball court, half basket ball court, kids playground. Recreation center includes gym room, yoga room, kids play room, rotating climbing wall, table tennis, snowboard simulation game, wii-game, movie room ….etc. 1 spa center, 2 restaurants both with amazing views and fire place seating areas. Food at the main restaurant are amazing. We just had dinner there tonight , everything was delicious, service was very good too!!
Today we went for a hike right after we checked in even I was so enjoying the beauty and amazing design of the room we stay in (THe name of room is “Broken top”, which we believed it is named after the mountain we can see from our room. It is room No.4, which we were told it is the best room in the ranch house). The hike took us to the “Spiritual Rock”, where we can see all 4 mountains in one view: Mount Hood, Mount 3 sisters. We did a 15 mins meditation by sitting on a bench on spiritual rock. That was a very peaceful and mindful of 15mins! Coming back from hiking, we went straight to swimming pool. Pool was very well designed with lots of seating space and interesting rocks in the middle of the pool to create more privacy and area for people. And we even went played the water slides. Gosh, can’t remember when was last year I played water slide! You would think after 4hrs driving to here plus the hike and swimming, we should be pretty much done for the day right? Hee, hee we went to play table tennis for 2 games and followed by volleyball playing and over head serving practice. I have to thank Brian for teaching me how to serve overhead call. Even though I played volleyball in college, I never learned how to do overhead serve! Finally after all of these, my energy went down so we came back to the room to enjoy the sunset view from our deck. Beautiful sunset with beautiful people, another great moment of life to be memorized!!!
Tomorrow, we are going to enjoy our spa at the resort, play some golf and tennis, more swimming for sure…… another exciting day to further explore this amazing resort!!!!
Here are some pictures to share:
Living in present time 
Nice place! Will try one day!