Julie, Zoe and Phryne's visit

In Mid-August Julie, Zoe and Phryne stopped by from their sunny California vacation for a weekend side trip to Oregon. We had a lot of fun!

Friday morning: waffles!

Friday turned out to be a long string of playgrounds while we got a chance to catch up with Jule.

River Fox park.

Zoe, Phryne & Jan with 'Gentle Ben'

Salmon BBQ on Friday evening.

We quickly figured out that Zoe and Phryne have a propensity for climbing and there are only so many playgrounds in the neighborhood (we visited half a dozen or so over the weekend!), so we decided to visit Tree2Tree adventure park near Gaston:

A short safety briefing and then we were off to the races. After a couple of quick climb throughs of the beginners track, Phryne settled on climbing trees. With a few minutes of figuring things out she tirelessly climbed them up again and again...

Zoe meanwhile zipped through all the available climbing courses from easy to hard to very hard - I had trouble keeping up! Though I was helped by the fact that multiple times climbers right in front of us required rescue by the staff...

Inza R Wood middle school football field

After our Sunday morning walk (more playgrounds!) we decided to visit OMSI (Oregon Museum of Science and Industry), which hosted a special exhibition about Pixar.

Jule gets to play, too!

And in the afternoon: more playgrounds!

Sunday evening: Molecular Gastronomy! Zoe and Phryne cooked up an interesting concoction that looked a lot like Sushi, but tasted more like...well, who knows? I never had the guts to try it!

Good times!