Catching up

Well, it's almost Thanksgiving and we are enjoying the prospect of a few calm days to get a breather.
Today, with remarkably clear and warm weather for mid-November, we ventured out to visit Cape Falcon - a beautiful ~5 mile hike. Turned out the beach of the neighboring Oswald West State Park is a very popular surfing spot - even in the middle of November. There were dozens of surfers out there.

In other news: Villebrew, our little coffee cart in Villebois, finally reopened yesterday as 'black arrow' coffee - we are delighted!

What else? Jacob visited yesterday for another game of chess. For those who care, the world chess championship is currently going on between Magnus Carlsen (Norway) and Fabiano Cuarana (USA). We are not playing quite at their level...yet.

Saturday took us to Champoeg State Park: always a pleasant walk!

And I don't think we have added a picture of our latest Lego addition:

George (and Abby) kept a watchful eye, to make sure we assembled everything properly.

The collection so far...