Playing With the Folks

We had a fantastic weekend with my parents.  I am so thankful they made the trip to come see my race.  I hate driving long distances so I recognize it as a sacrifice for them to travel all the way to our house.  They brought us a carload of gifts with them, including Reed’s Dairy chocolate milk and egg nog.  I’ve devoured nearly an entire half gallon of egg nog by myself.  It’s divine.

Mom and Dad only stayed for two days but I wished they would stay forever. (I even tried bribing them with See’s chocolates but they didn’t fall for it.)

We have had sunny weather for the past few months and the day before they arrived, it started raining.  They called me a filthy liar when I said that the sun really does come out in Western Oregon.  Thankfully it only rained the first day.  We had nice weather on Saturday for my race and the pumpkin patch.

Here’s a rundown of our activities:

We went to the Mission Mill museum which used to be a woolen mill.  It was really interesting and made me grateful that I was born in the modern world.  Can you imagine not having a shower and electricity?  What terrible way to live.  We tried to keep Eva in the stroller in the museum but she has this crazy idea that she should be allowed to run like a maniac wherever we go.  Unfortunately, we discovered our stroller has a wonky wheel so it was a battle to keep the thing moving and Eva content at the same time.  Thank goodness for the Sesame Street app.  

 

We also rode up the Willamette River on a steamboat.  It was raining quite hard while we were on the boat so we ended up having to mostly stay inside.  Except for Eva; she didn’t seem to mind the rain.  Mykey is a good sport for hanging around outside in the rain with her.  I’m not that nice.  I’m very delicate and can’t be standing around in nasty weather.

We then had a great time at Heiser’s pumpkin patch.  There was a petting zoo, train and fire engine rides, pumpkin-shooting cannons, a hayride and delicious fried food.  I particularly enjoyed the fried Oreos but Myke was partial to the fried apple slices.  They were both  mighty tasty.  My buddy Michael is working in Portland for a couple months so he drove down to join us.  It was a fun afternoon.

We also did some shopping and watched a movie while enjoying delicious ice cream bars.  (I’m beginning to see a pattern as to why I’ve gained 10 pounds.)  The visit was over too quickly and now I will anxiously await our reunion at Thanksgiving…a reunion with more egg nog, that is.