What a glorious time to come back to Oregon. Before we headed north I was whining that it was going to be cold and rainy, the Arizona sunshine and warm weather thinned out my blood. Normally Spring Break is nasty for the kids, well we must have brought the sun with us, it has been amazingly gorgeous. We had some rain one night just as we were leaving the pizza parlor, we got a little wet and chilly but as I write this at 5:00 pm Sunday night it is still 63 degrees. All the flowering trees in the capitol mall were in full bloom just at their peak, daffodils and tulips have popped up.
Saturday daughter Chris and son-in-law Micah invited us to dinner at their place, Micah is quite the cook, he smoked a ham on the Traeger and made a blackberry cobbler from the berries he's picked last summer. We played part of a game of Mexican Train but we were all too tired to continue to the end.
Sunday morning Jack and Sharyl, friends from our Good Sam camping club stopped by for a visit, they left the next day for a 2 week Panama Canal cruise, if I were ever to take another cruise it would be the PC, that whole project has intrigued me since I was a kid. In the afternoon, friends, Brian & Susan, Ed & Charlotte and Carol came by for snacks and adult beverages, we had a good visit then went out for some sustenance (pizza) It was fun to get together again, B & S were our neighbors on Lone Oak and of course Seahawk ticket holders, along with Ed and Charlotte and Carol and her late husband Ed, we'd get together up in Seattle for games. Lots of fun, I do miss going to the games. Brian loaned us the Seattle papers and Sports Illustrated magazines after the Super Bowl, it was such fun reading, the Seattle paper showed the crowds at the victory parade.
We've had many doctor, dentist and CPA appointments this week. I'm in the process of lining up an auction house to hold and estate sale for us when we return in the summer. There is no sense paying storage on "stuff", we have everything we need right here. You've heard the saying "close the barn door after the horses have escaped" I had Chris meet me at the bank to become a signer on our safety deposit box. When we traded in the coach we had no way to get the title out of the box so we had to file for a lost title. Gary has been able to ride with the bike group from Scott's Cycle even though it was down to 32 degrees Saturday morning.
Thursday we celebrated daughter Leah's birthday at Christo's, Salem's best Italian restaurant. Poor Salem, they have the lousiest restaurants in the state, It was so nice traveling to cities where it was hard to decide because all the choices were so great.
Friday night was the rehearsal dinner, daughter Talena is an event planner for non-profit organizations in Bend, so putting on a spread for 50 people was all in a days work. She did a lovely job, we had a fajita bar, the caters did a great job. First Nick (the groom) made a toast to Sam, he was so eloquent, made me cry, they have been friends since middle school. Then Nick's dad gave another tear jerker toast, followed by Talena who seemed a bit weepy.
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