John turned 34 on Friday, Max turned 3 on Saturday and Father's day was on Sunday. Joe and Jen (John's dad and step mom) came up to visit on Thursday to help us celebrate and much fun was had.
Joe took John out for a round of golf for his birthday, John hasn't gone golfing since we moved and was nervous that he'd be terrible. I understand that he was terrible, but he had a nice time anyway. How could he not really, Oregon put on its best weather on Friday and the course looks like it was very nice (They went to Red Tail Golf Course which happens to be right next to Target and more importantly Dutch Bros so I've spent a lot of time looking at the golf course while waiting for my Annihilator). While the boys were out on the links, Jen and I took the little boys to the zoo. I'd let our membership expire last fall without renewing and have missed it, so we renewed, Jen bought the boys zoo keys and lanyards, and we spent the afternoon wandering around. The polar bear even put on a good show for us, playing in the water with one of his toys.
We metup at our apartment and Joe was really wanting to go to the coast so we packed up and headed to Cannon Beach. Admittedly, I wasn't crazy about this idea, usually I'm the first one to want to go to the coast, but with a long drive ahead of me on Saturday (to Hood River to see Thomas), I was nervous about driving to the coast and back Friday evening. Turns out I was dead wrong. Taking Joe and Jen to Cannon Beach was the perfect cap to an already great day. The weather was great and the tide was low which made for a great time for Alex and Joe to run on the beach (Joe has declared Alex to be the next great athelete, those long legs make him fast!), and Max collected pretty much every single shell on the beach. We did some tidepooling at Haystack Rock, but didn't see too many critters. Found some fish, crabs, snails and anemones, but I think the tidepooling is better at Arcadia.
Those last two photos were taken by Jen.
The evening was capped off by a fantastic meal at the Wayfarer, which at first glace I thought would never be good enough to justify the prices, but actually managed to EXCEED my expectations. With the exception of the oysters which were just so-so, everyone's meal was amazing.
We woke up the next morning with a three year old and plans for a Day Out With Thomas at Mount Hood Railroad. I thought Mount Hood Railroad would be, you know, at Mt Hood, but in fact, it was in Hood River. Hood River turned out to be an adorable little town that I'd have liked to spend some time exploring (I do plan to go back to Fruit Loop), but we had a date with Thomas, so we spent several hours watching the boys jump in bounce houses, play with toys and then took a ride on Thomas himself!
Last one taken by Jen. THANK YOU!
Joe and Jen headed off to The Dalles and Multnomah Falls, while John, the boys and I headed home to have Max open his presents and have cake.
Father's day was comparatively uneventful. We took Joe and Jen to breakfast before they went to catch their flight back home, then John went to spend the gift cards he got for his birthday. The boys gave him the little present they made for him (a picture of the three of them glued to a CD and they made a little salt dough stand for it that says "DAD") and the boys and I spent the rest of the day being nice to John, letting him sit around in his boxers playing video games and basically letting him relax.
It was a pretty kick ass weekend all around I think.
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