Day 0 #Letsbelarsonfriends then go to the coast

Because so much happened before we arrived…

First there was black belt from June 23-29 (Sat-Fri), then Moving to Heal over the weekend, and of course working (with a much needed day off on Wednesday July 4). Tim came to visit on his way from Santa Cruz to Whistler, which meant lunch in Portland at Lardo on Friday. So we had Friday afternoon and Saturday until 2 to pack (and go to Nia, of course) and then it was time to head off to The Wedding!

John and (Re)Becca became Larson-Friends in a beautiful ceremony at Silver Falls, outside of Salem. Josh was the Best Man, and the superlative was well deserved. There was a difficult moment during the ceremony when a bug crawled down the shirt of the person sitting in front of Jen, and then he was trying to get it out without anyone noticing. It made me laugh and snort very loudly during Becca’s vows and reminded me of the moment at the beginning of Amy’s wedding when Ben leaned over and whispered “Mawwaige”. It was great to see many old friends, including Kylie Marble and Kylie Gray. We got to share a table with Mr. Miller, Josh and John’s  5^th and 6^th grade teacher, and his lovely wife (now that the kids are grown up we call them Luke and Erin).  The weather was perfect, and driving home through the southern Willamette Valley during the long and beautiful sunset we kept saying, “We live here!”

We stayed for dinner and a little dancing, then needed to hit it on the road for our next adventure.

We got home and changed out of our finery into coast gear. The cars were packed and waiting in the garage, so we headed off into the night at 10:30. Traffic was light in our direction but there were many many cars heading east. We arrived at the house at nearly midnight, unloaded the cars, found our jammies and went to bed to the sound of the waves.