And Summer and I snuck off one afternoon for a date -- a movie (The End of the Tour) and a late lunch at a food cart that served Georgian (the country, not the state) cuisine. A highlight was this tarragon soda:
The kiddos had some more down time with the family.
But we also squeezed in one more big excursion: a trip to Lost Lake in the Mount Hood National Forest.
It was a lovely day for a three-mile hike.
You could just see Mount Hood poking out amidst the dramatic clouds.
After visiting the lakeshore a bit ...
... we got to hiking in earnest. Oliver spent a significant amount of time riding on his family's shoulders ...
... but Madeline impressively relied on her own two feet to carry her for the vast majority of the three miles we walked.
Oliver did some walking too.
And he loved pausing to throw rocks in the water.
Then we all paused and had a snack.
We did not follow the Huckleberry Mountain trail ...
... but instead hugged the lake shore, which mostly stayed nice and level.
At the end of the hike, the kiddos hugged Uncle Matt.
And then it was back on the road, through the Columbia gorge, to Beaverton.
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