A Busy Day

Dave, Josh and I were up early for Yoga with Christen – a good class. I especially liked being the person who is there with her son AND husband – I never would have thought it would happen. Then we headed back to the house to pick up Jen and Sam, and then the plan was to have brunch at Pig’n. I love Pig’n for lunch, but Dave really doesn’t. It turns out, though, that he doesn’t mind Pig’n for brunch. On the way inform Midtown things were looking good – not a lot of traffic, not many people on the sidewalks – but then we got to the Pig’n lot and it was full of people waiting to get in. It’s the millennials – they sleep until 10 and then want breakfast. Fortunately I immediately had a plan b, which was to go to the Lazy Susan Café, a small restaurant near the Coaster Theater that we’ve never been to, They were able to seat us immediately at a nice table upstairs by a window and we had a nice breakfast. We probably won’t go back, because 1) the food was merely good and 2) it’s cash only – what’s with that?

The reason we did brunch was so that we could do the Neahkahnie mountain hike, which we di, and it was fun. I like to go faster uphill and slower downhill than everybody else (except Josh, who likes to go fast in both directions) so the descent was a little uncomfortable for me. My knee did fin until the last quarter mile or so and then it was pretty uncomfortable. The temps were nice – not too hot. Josh has hiked the trail several times with other people and showed us the place where you can scramble up to the summit, which was both wonderful and terrifying.

Since we do the trail as a one-way with two cars, Josh and Jen left to go into town straight from the hike and then headed home. Sam, Dave and I went back to the house and showered, and then Sam and I headed into town to shop. We spent a long time shopping! It was very fun. At Archimedes, my current favorite gallery, they have a stuffed hugging Yeti that if I had an extra $950 I would so have in my office.

Dinner was Irish Table at 5:30, so the rest of the troop met us there. Irish Table opened in 2010, and have had more or less the same menu since then. It’s the restaurant I recommend to anyone who asks me for a restaurant recommendation in Cannon Beach, because the food is really, really good. And it doesn’t get boring since they always have a yummy fish special and extraordinary soups. It did not disappoint tonight – everybody had great food and Sam decided she actually likes seafood (with Halibut as good as that, everyone would love seafood). The only downside was when we got the dessert menu and Dave’s dessert, the scones he’d been talking about all day, had fallen off the menu. He had the Guinness ice cream sandwich instead, and it was good but he was still sad.

When we got home it was time for Christmas (and Hanukah) in August. This is a hard thing, even though it was also fun. Josh is being deployed to Somalia in October for 10 months, so he won’t be here for the holidays (or a lot of other things, which we try not to think about). So he’d requested a time of gift giving on the coast and we’ve had fun shopping for gifts and stocking stuffers. I cut a small branch off an evergreen and we had a fun time of opening presents.

To put a cap on this busy day we played a new escape room game from a company called Kosmos – the series is called Exit the Game, and the one we played was called “Abandoned Cabin”. It was 2.5 out of 5 stars for difficulty, and had moments of extreme frustration. By the end we were getting in the swing of it and managed to get out in under the allotted time. It left me feeling very invigorated. The company really did a clever job of having there be more and more surprises even when you thought you had all the game pieces already. We’ll be passing it on to some other lucky family.

Then it was bed time and blog time. I’m hoping for some down time tomorrow.