Charlie meets Aven

Bend trip

We joined Eric's parents for a weekend in Bend.   

Fun to see the Deschutes further upstream 

 My attempt to get a rain shadow picture for class. storm spilling over the cascades with sunny skies following

Rhododendron Garden

Dasa, Lada and I took a quick trip to the rhodie garden in Sellwood.

Lana enjoyed playing in the water.  We enjoyed the tail end of the flowers.

Rock hounding with Hugo and Lada

Hugo had a long weekend so Dasa and I took the kids and went for a trip to Eastern Oregon to go rock hounding.

Pretty flowers on the pass over the mountains

Stopped at the Warm Springs reservation and Hugo did a pretty good job at the hoop dance.

First stop, thundereggs.

Lana worked pretty hard

Hugo took it seriously and really wanted to find a big one.  

He meticulously cleaned every one he was allowed to keep (weight limits on planes!)

Cliff swallows

The thunderegg ranch was beautiful

Driving to John Day after, we stopped at one of the John Day fossil beds.  Here's us

Fun fossil

First time camping in a tent for the kids

It was cold.  But they all slept on top of room, so...

I froze because my good cold weather bag has a rip from the fated death valley sand storm mad dash.

Lada was adorable, but exhausting

Hugo was great with her in John Day, helping her get to the fossil bed.

Again, Hugo took it very seriously and found some pretty cool fossils.

Lada had fun playing in the dirt, to a point.  

Overall, it was so much fun to spend time with them and show off a bit of Oregon

Blazers game

Kimbyl and Marilyn took us all to the Blazers game so Hugo could experience it.

I only have pictures of Hugo because he really had a ton of fun

Newport with my girls

Katherine Dasa and I went to newport to have a girls weekend.  We Stayed in Sylvia's Beach house, which is a book lovers hotel, had amazing weather, and spent they days walking on the beach and reading.  Lovely trip.

 Devil's punchbowl

 Data eating crab for the first time

Heather's happy spot

Look, I'm in the picture too

 So happy

Deschutes with the Czechs

Another favorite place to take Dasa's family 

Cannon Beach

 A

gain, way colder than expected for Czechs used to going to the Mediterranean beaches.

Isn't Hugo handsome?

My Rin too

And Lada?

Aish, so much cuteness!