Fun Visit with the Parents

We had a great visit with Daniel's parents. We had about 3 or 4 days to recover from my sister's visit (well it was mostly my nieces that I needed to recover from, not my sister) and clean up the house again, and then Daniel's parents arrived for a week long visit.

While we were in Minnesota this summer, Jerry and Judy were closing up shop on the family farm and house there, and Daniel and I got a few things from the farm and house. Jerry and Judy graciously rented a UHaul trailer and delivered all our goodies to us.

While they were here, Daniel and his dad constructed some wood shelves for me in the basement, so all my Rubber Maid bins that I use for storage can be neatly stored away. Yeah! But instead of doing lots of work, like we have done in the past when they visit (and by we, I don't mean me), we got to take them out on a few adventures outside of Portland. One day we drove up to Mount Hood, in the pouring rain. We ate lunch at the lodge, looked around, and then took a 4 mile hike to twin lakes. We had a mix of sun and rain throughout the day, but did get wet on our hike.






On another day, we drove over to the coast to Cannon Beach, walked the beach and ate lunch, and then drove up to Fort Clatsop and then to Astoria. Daniel's mom is a Lewis and Clark buff. Fort Clatsop was really interesting and has a nice little museum with movies and all. We also walked the very end of the Fort to Coast Trail and visited the canoe landing. In Astoria, Daniel took us to the Goonies House (from the movie) and we spent some time Sea Lion observing in the little marina. The docks were covered with Sea Lions. I don't even know how you would get to your boat if you had one there. We had really beautiful weather on this day. There was no wind on the beach and it was warm. (We were overdressed in the picture below!)