Saturday, July 26, 2008

Summer Road Trip to Corvallis

Chris and I made another open-window, "wind-in-our-hair" road trip to Corvallis last weekend to attend the wedding of his high school friend Jesse.

On Saturday, we strolled through a farmer's market, had breakfast at the Broken Yolk, then drove aimlessly through fields of grazing cows and hay until we stumbled across the Tyee winery, where we sampled award-winning Pinot Gris.

Jesse's wedding ceremony and reception were held that Saturday night at Beazell Forest Park. Very lovely wedding, but also very hot. Thank goodness for the open bar (minus the bartender who carded me). :P



We headed the long way home to Seattle by cruising along the foggy Oregon coast. We breezed through (at 25 mph) dozens of small towns including Hebo, Lincoln City and Astoria. For lunch we dropped in on the quirky characters at the Snug Bar and Grill.
Although we didn't have time to make a ton of stops, we did take pictures of the beautiful scenerey and interesting sights along the way. Check em out at my Picasa web album!

Friday, July 4, 2008

Fourth of July in Quilcene

Chris invited me to his family's Fourth of July gathering in Quilcene. It was a scenic and fun road trip to the peninsula, and even more fun spending time with Chris and his family.


I made the rookie mistake of agreeing to wade into the mud to grab satchels of oysters left by the crazy Quilcene oyster people. I thought it'd be a fun, exciting, new thing to do.
In the end, I did have fun, but not before seriously panicking about falling flat on my face in front of Chris's entire family. I smiled big only after wiggling out of my sticky mud situation and back onto firm ground.

It was a invigorating, fun summer getaway, and I can't wait for next year!




For more gorgeous pics from Quilcene, check out my Picasa web album: http://picasaweb.google.com/lizfong/fourthOfJulyInQuilcene