Day 8 - influxx

First off, a little more about the wine tasting we did yesterday. The winery is called Westport Winery, and the actual winery is on the Washington coast, although they get their grapes from eastern Washington. It’s one of those places where all the wines have cute name, and they have many many wines on the menu – fortified and sparkling Rieslings, fruit wines, and so on. It reminded me strongly of Nehalem Bay winery, and we don’t need to go back.

I went to be early last night and slept in this morning. Dave got up and went for a walk on the beach. At about 9 I decided it was time to get up and thought it would be fun to go beach biking. So I texted Dave to make a plan, and he came back up and we got ready to go. The weather forecast was promising showers, but I was convinced they wouldn’t happen. Dave is not a fan of the beach bikes, but he said he was willing to go. He was pretty grim during the getting ready and driving to midtown though.

When we got to midtown it turned out the funcycle place was closed, even though they were supposed to have opened at 9:30. Dave’s mood immediately improved, and it improved even more when we discovered that there was a puzzle geocache that started right about where we were. It was a very fun one that took us on the beach past haystack rock and then back into town and onto a little walking trail neither of us had been on.  The way this one worked was that there was a photo of a place that you’d walk to, and then 4 little photos one of which was nearby, which had a number that you used to find the coordinates of the final point. After we’d found the 3 photo places and were on our way to the decoded final point, we were walking by icefire and I decided to go in – I’d completely forgotten that we hadn’t finished the puzzle. I was glad we did though because we ran into Ann Kramer, one of the Willamette View residents, which was fun.

Once we got back on track it was time for lunch, and it was Pelican day. Pelican is a brewpub originally out of Tillamook, and they built a big new place where Doogers used to be. Going to Doogers  always made me crabby because there was always a huge line and the food was overpriced and not very good. Dave feels the same way about Pelican, although it’s the prices and the beer that make him crabby. But they make MacPelican, which is one of my favorites, so we went there and although the beer was mediocre, my kale and farro salad was very tasty (order dressing on the side though). After lunch we went to town and got a space in the secret back lot. We went to Maggie & Henry’s to replace Dave’s sweatshirt, and I found a corduroy shirt and purse that I liked. Then we walked to the cupcake store, but all they had was giant Costco muffin sized ones. Why don’t they make little ones? Instead we went to Osburns and split a haystack sundae, which was yummy. Then we went back to the house for naps. Dave’s deck nap was interrupted by rain.

Once we were both up it was chilly enough to have an afternoon fire and play some Fluxx. It is a game where the end goal – who wins – and how each turn is played changes as you play the game. I like it because it’s mostly just luck, but there’s some strategy but no thinking ahead. About the time wit finished Jen and Tabetha got here and it was pretty much time to head to the Bistro, where the food was excellent but almost all the drinks were way too sweet. Also we ate too much.

Back to the house for more Fluxx and two games of trouble.  The second game was very hotly contested and full of reversals of fortune. Much honking and shrieking. It’s fun to have young persons come to visit!