Tuesday, March 3, 2009

A Getaway & Relaxing Return

On Friday we had a wonderful day driving past the big city, around the snowy Mt. Hood, through the desert, and straight into the melting Sunriver. It was amazing to see the changes in weather and land as we drove through Oregon. We watched the snow in Sunriver melt away as the weekend saw more and more hints of rain. On our last day there (Monday) we decided to take one last walk to the Village Mall only to have it rain heavily on our way back to the cabin. We dried our clothes in the dryer, ate some lunch and we were quickly on our way back to sunny Newberg - leaving Grandma and Grandpa Williams back at the cabin to relax for a few more days.


Declan had the tail-end of a cold when we left home on Friday but he quickly managed to catch a 24 hour flu-bug while we were in Sunriver. He woke us up at 4:30 on Sunday morning - coughing, wheezing, and yes you guessed it...vomitting. (Just the way everyone wants their weekend getaway to go!) He was not himself for the rest of our time in Sunriver. He slept and played inside while everyone else enjoyed hot-tubbing and the great outdoors. We would, of course, take turns staying with the sick little boy in the cabin, but we were not about to let this ruin our weekend.





While we were there we celebrated my father-in-law's 62nd birthday (which happens to be today). We ate cherry pie, and other fun goodies, and Jeremy and I discovered that we are awesome partners at Pictionary.

(Maya and Declan eating watermelon in grandpa's arms)



All in all, it was a fun relaxing time. I was shocked to see that we had taken over 300 pictures while we were in Sunriver, but we are so thankful that we did. It was simply beautiful there.

Thank-you Al and Nancy (grandma and grandpa) for inviting us to stay in your timeshare cabin. We all had a great time.

3 comments:

Glenda said...

Glad you had a great time, but poor little Declan. Hope he's feeling better now. I haven't played Pictionary in years. I don't think I'd ever want to play against you and Jeremy....you are such a good artist and Jeremy being an engineer must be good at it too. So I guess we will have to stick with "Gender Gap" - HA, remember that?

Anonymous said...

Welcome home. The pictures are amazing! I hope declan is feeling better.

Heidi Boos said...

So glad you had a good time despite having a sick little boy (Austin never threw up...thank goodness!!) I'm not surprised that you took 300 pictures. It's quite easy to do on a vacation like that. The pictures prove that you had a wonderful time and I'm so happy that you were able to get away for a weekend. Welcome home...a few days late. :)