Kick off your active day with a hearty breakfast at Sybil’s Omelets. Sybil’s offers 109 omelet combinations along with pancakes, Belgian waffles and biscuits and gravy. It is the place to go for a breakfast like your grandma used to make!

• Downtown Salem has a beautiful Riverfront Park that is home to a hand-carved carousel, children’s museum, and the Willamette Queen Sternwheeler. Spend the day along the Willamette River at the Gilbert House Children’s Museum where kids learn through creative play. With 20 hands-on exhibits and an Outdoor Discovery Area.
  
  Enjoy lunch downtown Salem at Azul’s Taco House where you can try the Vampire or Guac-N-Roll tacos. Azul’s has a variety of menu items, and they are all delicious!

• Head six miles south on I-5 (exit 248) to experience Oregon’s only storybook theme park, Enchanted Forest. The park offers a fantasy fountain show, comedy theatre, log flume ride, ice mountain bob sleds, western town, bumper cars, and a very scary haunted house.
  
  Enchanted Forest has food available for purchase or visitors can bring their own lunch to enjoy in the natural forest setting. The park is built on a hill so bring your comfortable walking shoes.

After your day’s adventure, head north to the Kroc Center where a warm pool with a lazy river and hot tub will soothe your soul. There is a kid’s pool area and a rock-climbing wall - if your family still has energy.

Pro tip: The Kroc Center offers Escape Room activities that you need to schedule in advance.

The Yard Food Park is the place to go to satisfy your hunger from the day’s discoveries. The Yard has 18 food trucks offering everything from fish and chips, sushi, Thai food, and Gyros, to Philly cheesesteaks, and finger-licking good barbecue. The entire family will find their favorite dish. The Yard offers indoor and outdoor seating and outdoor games including cornhole.