Here is my weather widget this morning. Looking like some nice sun this week, which of course makes me very happy. The heat is a little bit of a shock to the system but we put in our little air conditioner so the office is pretty cool.

When it gets hot like this we like to go swimming at the Silverton Reservoir, which of course is in Silverton. I love to swim!

This weekend we all went out to the cabin in Seaside and intended on doing some work but ended up just goofing off. The trip began Friday, Herm and Marlee (with Pila) picked me up at home (along with Princess who must come along so I can feed her the puree food that sustains her life) then we met Michael at work in Oregon City and picked him up too. We stopped for some burgerville, always gotta stop for that, then decided to stop in at Costco in Hillsboro.

Only thing was they couldn’t remember where it was so Herm told Marlee to ask a runner on the side of the road. I was like “He’s running, you can’t interrupt that” So as usual no one listens to me (ha ha). Well he got off lucky bacause he didn’t speak english. We’re driving along and there is another runner, Herm jerks the car over to the side and tells Malee to roll down the window. This all ends pretty funnily (yeah I said funnily). The woman is running past us the opposite way and Marlee gets so flustered at Herm making her ask for directions that she just yells out “Costco?” to the woman. It was so funny! The lady gave her directions though so that was good.

Herm loves Costco, it’s like Disneyland to him. So we looked at tons of stuff we weren’t going to buy, sat on couches, fantasized about cookies and pies (maybe that was just me) and then stood in line for 15 minutes to buy $10 worth of raspberries. When we got back to the car the cat and the dog were both in the drivers side, Pricess was on the floor and Pila on the seat. I was trying to imagine what people thought when they walked past the car to go shopping. If I saw that I would think there was some crazy ass woman (yeah it would have to be a woman, ha ha) taking her cat and dog for a ride. Who brings their cat in the car?

Then off to Seaside! Well not quite, had to stop at DQ for some chocolate dipped cones on the way. Priness was so hungry (what’s new) that I let her have some of my ice cream, she loved it! Oh another little thing about Princess on this excursion, she was so hungry she was trying to eat this bag of bread that was in the back window. So we kept trying to stop her but she was damn hungry so again she tried to get up and get the bread but part of the bag was hanging down on my arm that I had over Michael’s shoulder and Princess took a big fat juicy bite into my flesh! Ouch!

Saturday morning no one was really feeling like putting up shingles or soffits on the garage (which was what we went to do), so instead we decided to go to Astoria and get some doughnuts and stop at every single garage sale along the way. Sounds fun to me!

The doughnuts were good, of course, and the garage sales were pretty fun too. Herm bought a 1/2 lb chocolate Hershey kiss, who sells that at a garage sale? Angie got Pila a stuffed animal so she could have something to chew on.

At one sale there was a Turkey across the street and Michael called me over to see it. It was so funny, I wished we had taken the camera. I had never seen a turkey before, they look so pre-historic with their crazy heads and scary feet. This guy was funny though, he was getting all puffed up and putting on a show.

Then we drove over to Washington and to Long Beach then back to Seaside. It was a fun Saturday!

Sunday we went and ate at Camp 18, got really stuffed then headed home.

We went and watched the parade this weekend and it was pretty fun. Michael works with a woman who invited us to a parking lot they rent to watch the parade from. We arrived Friday and camped out in the back of the jeep then watched the parade on Saturday.

It is mad craziness down there, people camp out on the sidewalks to be sure they get the spot they want so they have a good veiw of the parade. It was fun to see.

The family that rented out the parking lot has watched the parade there for years and they rent the parking lot from the owner and charge $35 a car to friends and family to park there and get a place on the sidewalk to see the parade. They donate the money to a charity.

We took some pictures and put them up on Flickr

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