Thanksgiving Weekend

Wow, it's been a long time since we've posted. No excuses. Won't try and catch you up on everything that has happened, too much to cover here. But will post about our Thanksgiving Weekend.

We spent Thanksgiving itself with Wendi's family in Canby. A good time was had by all and we ate too much turkey too. There were darts and balloon fights. Good food and good conversation. Derek and Katri made their annual pilgrimage for "Damn Pie".

For the weekend we drove to Astoria to spend some time there, possibly gaming, definitely spending time with family and friends. Well, when we got there we discovered that several members had taken ill. The symptoms described pointed to the flu and we didn't want to risk getting sick. So we procured a hotel room and spent Saturday as a family doing some geo-caching and hiking. We had a BLAST! We got 12 or 13 caches, found a couple of ant nests and saw a bald eagle too, visited a windy beach, got the "wiggles" out of our dogs and just took our time exploring. We drove down the coast to get some Tillamook ice cream and got home Saturday night early enough that the kids were still awake. It was not what we had planned and we definitely would have liked to see folks but all in all we had a great time. It was an opportunity to demonstrate the "When Life Gives you Lemons" idea!