The kiddos were excited to see ...
... and snuggle their west coast family.
The forecast called for rain every day for the entire week and a half we were in Oregon, so whenever there was a break we did our best to get outside.
This included an early visit to the Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge.
Madeline got a rare picture of her parents together with Oliver.
And we all enjoyed the spooky atmosphere created by the fog.
At one point Oliver decided to investigate a fern, remembering that one can find clusters of fern spores on the underside of the leaves -- something I had no idea he knew.
At roughly the same point Madeline decided she'd had enough and was ready to go home thank you very much.
So we turned back.
And this fact cheered her back up.
Our next excursion was to the neighborhood school's playground, where we gathered and sorted over a hundred pine cones (Madeline counted).
Summer and I also snuck out one day to pick up some Dungeness crab, which we'd missed in recent years due to fishery-related issues.
The kiddos helped us pick them (they'd had practice with blue crabs in Delaware over the summer) ...
... and we turned the glorious results ...
... into crab cakes. Yum.
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