Getaway!

I don't know why we aren't clever enough to spend more Fridays at the coast. John had a meeting Friday morning and then we grabbed a rental car and headed west. We landed here:

Where as we had hoped, we ran into handsome Chris!

We also got to see his lovely bride-to-be, Sam and do a brief catch up with this couple we love. After a stop at the store for some supplies (including champagne and chocolate covered pretzels), we headed back to our hotel for a super enjoyable night of hanging out with the ocean out our window.

In the morning, the obligatory walk down to the beach.

We then packed up and hit the road back to Portland. We stopped along the way to shop a bit at the outlet mall ride this bull.

Since it's such a long drive back to Portland (really, it isn't), we stopped by Ponzi for a little wine and cheese for lunch.





Since it was only early afternoon on Saturday when we got home, we continued our fun by heading downtown to see what we could see...

We walked through the little park areas and crossed through the protest parade.

We saw some art and rode the streetcar.

We walked..

We found sidewalk faces.

and finally found ourselves having snack on top of the city.

When we got home, we nightcapped our delightful journey with a bottle of wine and some Kinect bowling (I totally won). What a delightful weekend.