My birthday weekend, we went down to Salem, OR to visit some good friends. We stayed with Darren and Mona and their cute munchkins, Clinton and Doyle.
Saturday morning we went out for breakfast, my favorite meal to eat out, at a good down home restaurant. Amazing food like banana walnut stuffed french toast and chocolate chip pancakes. Of course, our waiter was very sweet and covered Clinton's pancakes in whip cream.
Saturday morning we went out for breakfast, my favorite meal to eat out, at a good down home restaurant. Amazing food like banana walnut stuffed french toast and chocolate chip pancakes. Of course, our waiter was very sweet and covered Clinton's pancakes in whip cream.
And Doyle loved his toast and jam.
We then went on a 'walk' to a surprise location...
The carousel on the river front!
Doyle loved waving to all the people on the ride before us.
Is it our turn yet?!
I found the perfect b-day hat...
Cute river boat.
It was also the Iris fest. weekend so we stopped at the parade.
Even UPS got into the festivities!
We also stopped at an iris farm. The irises were gorgeous but SO hard to photograph.
Dogwood tree.
Off to the iris fest. carnival area...the kids got a ride.
On the way home, we took a cute ferry across a very fast swollen river. Only 9 cars could fit at a time.
We took a walk in the woods before dinner. Darren and Mona live at the top of a hill, overlooking a whole valley...it's breath taking (see panorama picture below, taken from their deck).
Doyle playing with Brian before bed time.
It was a wonderful weekend. We saw Jason and Sarah, Brandon and Nicole, Jeff and Jennica, Ron and Cheryl at a lunch at Darren and Mona's on Sunday afternoon and then so many more at gospel meeting that evening.
