Monday, July 25, 2011

"Summer" in Seattle

(I wrote this last Friday and didn't have time to put the pictures in & post, excuse the time-warp feeling.)

We've been nearer to home the last few weekends. Here's a few highlights where there was a camera present.

We made some sushi with Deven & Noah. We love hangin with D&N and we love sushi so it was a good combo.








Ashley & Steven were in town from CO. We had a rare moment of summer-like weather and jumped on the opportunity to BBQ with them & the Chisums.

(Stole the pics from Val)



We had some friends in town from Vancouver/Germany and introduced them to some Seattle sights & bites. But the camera didn't make it. Then we went to Olalla with L&V, full of dreams of boating in the sunshine. Rain, rain, rain. We had a great time visiting with my parents though, and good food & good company seem to overcome many other obstacles. We had lunch at Tides Tavern in Gig Harbor, a classic. The boys were brave brave and ventured out into the weather to lay some crab pots early Sunday morning, and low and behold, by 10am they were proud catchers of two dungeness crabs.  If you've never eaten I-caught-it-this-morning-with-my-own-two-hands crab, you are missing out.




















My cute sis Adrienne is in town for the weekend and she and her boyfriend Justin spent the night with us last night. We had a great time finally meeting Justin, dining with Ryan & Jaime (camera didn't make it out) and rounded the night out with a lil bonfire in the back yard. The sun is finally shining in Seattle, so hopefully Justin is getting a good taste of our lovely city.






Off to ONP for the weekend!

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Turkey: Under Water

I got ahold of a portion of Ashley & Stevens pictures, including those from the waterproof camera. So much fun.



Boat ride from Oludeniz to Butterfly Valley


Starting back up the cliffside of butterfly valley to George House


Patara beach


12 Islands cruise





Beach @ butterfly valley

Hi mom. My first time in the Med








Friday, July 8, 2011

Southern Oregon 4th of July

Matt & I are both blessed with fairly flexible jobs (ok, mine is really flexible) so we were able to make the most out of the long weekend. We headed out of work a bit early on Thursday, hit some awful traffic getting out of town and made it to Medford shortly before 1am. We worked from Medford on Friday and Tuesday, climbed Saturday and part of Sunday, and were able to enjoy Friday & Sunday afternoon and evening and all of Monday catching up with family and friends.

Matt & his dad took a spin in one of the cars he's restoring



I chased the cow


We watched the 4th of July parade in Ashland with Jeri


umm...yeah

...aslo not something I needed to see


Cute!



Took a walk through Lithia Park and tried the 'healing' Lithia Water which tastes like rotten eggs.





Yuck!



Did some wine tasting in the Applegate Valley

Troon Vineyard






Wooldridge Creek winery



...and some cliff jumping for old times' sake.











and of course enjoyed lots of Jeri's delicious treats. Tuesday night was the long drive back north. :)