5 years

We went to Bend for our anniversary again this year. It’s such a nice town and our trip coincided with their art/craft festival again. One of the Eugene fiber-arts gurus was there, and I was glad for the chance to introduce her to BN, since every time she sees me she says something about how I don’t even look old enough to get married. Now she’s seen my husband with her own eyes! From a hatmaker from Washington I purchased a sun hat for our trip to Hawaii, handmade from some natural fiber that looks like a straw hat but is soft and squishable so it’ll be good for packing and travelling.

For our day trip we went to Sparks Lake, one of the lakes we’d visited two years ago on our trip with my family to the Cascade Lakes area. It was a perfect day to go swimming, the water was very cold but refreshing. The Cascade Lakes mosquitos are pure evil. They are huge, and the bites I got swelled up into quarter-sized welts that turned purple like a bruise. And itched like mad!

We made several visits to Townshend’s Tea, a really-and-truly tea shop with no coffee at all. Wish they’d open a location in Eugene.