Dave and Gayle Visit

 Dave and Gayle came up to Oregon for a late-summer visit; they arrived on Monday, August 27. Mary enjoyed getting extra attention again. Joshua mixed up some delicious drinks a couple of evenings to go along with whatever game we happened to play that night. Thursday afternoon they headed over to Reedsport, and we followed Sunday morning. It was our first time there without Grandad, which was really hard. But it was a good visit.

We enjoyed watching the sunset over the ocean.

We had nice cool evenings and warm days over at the coast, including some fog. We stayed pretty busy during the days with blackberry picking and projects around the trailer. On Monday, we cut back a bunch of the bushes in the back, which included blackberry vines, yikes.

We returned to Eugene on Tuesday and enjoyed another couple of days together here, marked by particularly good food. One of the nights we had lamb, and one of the nights we had an Italian dinner. Joshua found places around town to get good ingredients to recreate some of his favorite dishes from Italy and we drank the bottle of red wine he brought back. The first course was caprese salad. It was delicious.

Our second course was prosciutto e melone. We lucked out because one of the restaurants in town recently had a proscuitto class and brought it a bunch of great options. This was also delicious.

Gayle and I went shopping on Thursday and had fun picking out some adorable clothes that she got for Mary, along with this teething key ring. Dave and Gayle left Friday morning to return home.