1. A family bday party (to celebrate the bdays of Jessie, Luke, and Tre). We FEASTED, opened presents, played with the niece, nephew and dogs, and ate some delicious berry cobbler to finish off the night. Good times all around.
2. A baby shower for Jessie (thrown by yours truly, Kathy, and Trisha). A lot of work, but a lot of fun too, and a success if I do say so myself!
3. A long, scenic drive home complete with stops in Corvallis (oh how we heart you!), Pacific City, and McMinneville. This was kind of an impromptu decision, but we had the whole day to do whatever so we decided to swing through Corvallis since we miss it a lot. We had lunch and dessert at two of our favorite spots, before heading west to the beach and driving all the way to Pacific City before we could find some sun breaking through the fog. There we climbed Cape Kiwanda and just walked around amused by Jack's obsession with chasing kites, seagulls, etc. We decided to drive home through McMinneville, where we stopped to eat at a McMenamins (only by default, everything else was closed). Joe hates McMenamins due to their small portion sizes and notoriously poor service, and his disdain was solidified due to our 1 hour wait (literally) for our food to get served. On the positive side, two very nice, talkative, and apparently accomplished people asked to pet Jack (we were sitting on the patio), proceeded to grab a table next to us and talked our ears off for 2 hours straight, making the time go by fast. The dude had won an oscar for creating 3D animation software in the 80s and the chick swam on the Canadian national team in her prime. Now they run a software company together in PDX. Cool. Anyway, we left McMinneville around 9:30pm and got home at 1:30am on Sunday night. Long, but fun day. And the pictures of course...
When I am in charge of showers, we EAT (no cucumber sandwiches for me...)
My new niece or nephew is spoiled already!
Me with the mama-to-be, looking very goddess-like in her pretty dress
Pretty ladies- grammy, mommy, auntie, and cousin
A stop at two of our favorite spots in Corvallis: American Dream Pizza for the lunch special, and then Francesco's next door for some gelato! (A throwback to our Italy trip, where we would eat gelato both after lunch AND dinner)
Tastes even better than it looks...
Climbing Cape Kiwanda
Breaking for a photo op... you would think after climbing the South Sister (about 5,000 ft. vertical gain) we could do this no problem, but that Cape Kiwanda is one steep scramble!
Even Jack needed a break, and he is insane
Beautiful view: husband, puppy, ocean
And the descent...
Um, this should be a postcard. Seriously. I may be biased, but our dog is really stinkin' cute.
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you guys always do such fun stuff!
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