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Monday, February 6th, 2012 @ 10:01 am
Saturday Bill, Emily and I drove up to visit Doreen’s sister Susie and her family in Ocean Park, Washington. Actually it was not a bad 2-hour drive along the coast and it was a beautiful sunny day.
Susie made sure that both of her girls (Adele and Alissa) were in attendance at her place along with little Larry, Adele’s little one.
Larry was the great entertainment for the day. Susie fixed us all a nice lunch of hamburgers and yummy potato salad. We left in the late afternoon for the drive home, stopping at Pig-n-Pancake in Astoria for dinner along the way.
In the last few weeks we celebrated both Ginger’s and Gretchen’s birthdays. The celebrations both started out with a “Saturday before” tea party at our house with all the girls present.
Then on the actual birthday days we celebrated with the rest of the family and of course, cakes.
For Ginger’s Birthday, Mauricio, Ginger, Bill and I went out to the Tillamook Cheese factory for a lunch and ice cream. We returned to the house to have the cake complete with candles.
For Gretchen’s Birthday, Doug and Gretchen joined Bill and I at the Blue Heron for lunch. In the evening we all enjoyed dinner at the Brill’s home – again followed by the essential cake.
Now we have a few months to wait for the next birthday which will be Mauricio’s in April.
After a week of cold, but mostly sunny, weather we awoke to a white outside this morning.
Bill got outside before any cars had driven down our street and got some pictures of our house covered in snow. It is not common to have snow in Tillamook, but more snow is predicted for the nest few days.
When we went out to the Brill’s for dinner, Alexa had constructed this nice snow chair. No school tomorrow, so the children get to enjoy the snow.
A
Happy
New Year
to all !!!
We spent the evening three floors up at an outside on-the-roof bar above the marina offices here and had a very enjoyable time. There was plenty of great food and it was all very good and the drinks were included in the price. Bill is getting himself ready for Oregon by drinking Cuba Libres. I enjoyed a Pina Colada followed by many glass of nice white wine. We both enjoyed champagne and 12 grapes for the midnight revelry. Also at midnight, the fireworks were visible all around the bay.
We both managed to last until about 12:30 when we returned to Lanikai for a long winter’s nap.
We tied up in Marina Rivera Nayarit the Thursday before Christmas and began getting the salt out of things to stow below while we spend time stateside. Christmas Eve we spent quietly on the boat, but Christmas Day we got together with lots of other cruisers and local “gringos” at a favorite hang out. The restaurant provided turkey and the rest of us provided the pot luck food. Turned out that there was plenty of goodies and we all ate our fill.
After we had eaten our fill, Santa arrived to pass out gift bags to 400 children from the local area and it was great to see the gifts light up their faces.
Before Santa handed out the gifts a group of the children sang Christmas carols for us in English.
