To the beach

We met at Sharon's at 10 am to head off to the beach.  We went in 3 vehicles.  Judy, Joyce and Barbara S drove.  First stop was the Bergstrom winery.  It was an expensive tasting, $25, but we shared 2 tastings for 7 of us, since the drivers were only having small tastes.  The wine was delicious but also too expensive to buy.  

There was still a lot of haziness in the air from the Canadian fires, so visibility was less.  In spite of that the views were stunning.

Next stop Arbor Brook

Again we shared 2 tastings but it was only $10 and it was waived if we bought wine.  Which we did. 

After tasting we sat outside and had our sack lunches.  

Then we went off to Alexana.  It was another expensive tasting and expensive wine so no purchasing.  But it was another pretty place and the wine was good.

When we were leaving we saw this wine.  Now I am curious.  It was not one that we tasted.  I will have to track it down.

This one we just checked out.  We did not do a tasting.  But I think that it is one to put on the list to plan to just sit and have a glass of wine.  It was a very pretty place.

Our next stop is a place we have been to many times so we did not need to do a tasting.  Some people just bought some wine for the beach.

Then it was time to just head out to Lincoln City.  Joyce and I stopped at the grocery store to pick up a few dinner things.  We were going to a house we have not been to before.  We got settled in, had snacks and wine.  Kris and Olivia got their walk on the beach.  We had dinner at 7 pm.  

Sharon made a delicious chilled tomato soup,

Then I fell down on the job with pictures.  I had made a chicken and artichoke casserole, Barbara S made a lemon zest green bean side dish which was very tasty and she brought garlic bread from Beaverton Bakery.  Joyce added a salad.  A very tasty meal.

I showed pictures of our Barcelona, Madrid, Paris trip.  

Sunday, August 6, 2017

We had a leisurely morning, Then Joe made French Toast with bananas, strawberries and hand-whipped, whipped cream.  What a yummy way to start the day.  I was too interested in eating to remember to take a picture.  Debbie, George and I did the 3 mile loop.  Of course, we had to take pictures of the lake.

We had a tour of all the work that Joe has done on his cars and his ideas of what he plans to do. 

 We had a light salad for lunch and then we headed south.  

We met the Singer gang at the Amazon.com building where Roman works.  

We went up to the upper deck where we thought we would be able to see the plane fly over but we had just missed the show.  

Roman is hiding behind Madeline.  

We went to the UPS Waterfall Garden.  George works for UPS.  

We then walked to Full Tilt Ice cream.  This is much better ice cream than Molly Moon's.  Then we walked along the waterfront to Pike Place.  

We walked back to the car, our parking time was running out.

We headed south,  It was an uneventful drive with hardly any traffic.  We stopped at Jeremy's Farm to Table in Chehalis for dinner.  It was very good.

enough for lunch tomorrow as well

a challenge to get a picture of the sun as we were moving.

sunset at home.  

We made it home about 8:30 pm

Saturday, Aug 5

We left Portland right after breakfast, around 8 am to head to the Seattle area. All of our nephews on George's side of the family are visiting Madeline, our niece.  So we decided to join them for a short visit.  We got to Redmond in time for lunch.  We walked to Bangkok Basil for Thai food.  It was very good.  So Madeline & Roman (her boyfriend), George, Robbie and Martin as well as George and me.  Quite a crowd. Robbie's girlfriend, Charisee was visiting another friend so she was not with us.

George, Robbie, George, Madeline, Martin, Roman

After lunch we drove to a lavender farm. When we got there we found that they were closed for a private party. Plan B - we went to Chateau Ste Michelle to go wine tasting.  That is a huge place.  Some of us did a tasting.   Than we wandered around on the grounds.  There were a lot of small parties and groups of people picnicking.

We thought we would check on the lavender farm again, so I called them. They are permanently closed except for private parties.  Oh well.  It sure looked like a pretty place on their website.

Once we got home we walked into Redmond to go to Molly Moon's for ice cream.

George and Martin

On the way back we stopped at Trader Joes to pick up food for dinner.  Once we got back to the apartment Madeline and Roman stared fixing dinner.

Charisee had arrived by then.  Everyone else relaxed.

Luckily Seattle has not been quite as hot as Portland.

George, George, Martin, Charisee, Robbie

Martin, Charisee, Robbie

Roman, Madeline (not enough chairs so Madeline is sitting on the TV table).

We left Madeline's around 7:30 to head on up to Debbie's. The sun was going down.  

It was a full day.