Holiday weekend

On a nice Friday afternoon, my brother and two girls flew in for a holiday trip up to the Seattle area. The plan was to spend the night in Portland and then head out Saturday morning. After getting everyone at the airport, we headed out for a BBQ and a relaxing night. Before the BBQ started, we had a chance to relax and play around. Roller skates, big beach balls and other forms of play were involved.

But the BBQ was calling so we started to cook a varied selection of vegetables and thick steaks, plus a nice fillet of Salmon. First artichokes and asparagus went on, followed by par cooked potatoes, then the steak and finally the fish. Bread and cheese filled the time before the food was cooked. After a good dinner, we decided to drive down for desert. We piled into the car and headed off to a place on 23rd ave. A few slices of cake and we were heading back, to large of a crowd, but it was fun. The cake was good and we all were tired after so off to bed.

The next morning off.. Well no, we had to make breakfast and have a run before heading out, finally we were off only about 4 hours behind schedule. Once on the road it should be a nice easy drive, well an accident slowed us down, crawled along for 45 minutes. Finally got some open road and off we went. A beautiful day and the mountains still had a lot of snow. After about 3 hours we arrived and it was time to really relax...

Canoe was calling, BBQ was calling, the golf cart was calling... So much to do and we did it all.
Cooking, eating and just hanging out was the order of the day.