High School High

This last weekend we traveled to Oregon for Ian's 10 year high school reunion from Sam Barlow High School, Class of 1999. It was a very quick trip for us. We didn't bring the kidlets though, so it was probably good that it was quick. Poor Davin is getting used to abandonment by now. Weston understood that he was having 2 sleepovers and then I would come get him. The boys were very good for Natalie and Nicole, and I am grateful for that.

So, back to our trip. We were really bad about taking pictures on this one, so not much documentation. We flew out Thursday evening. After grabbing a quick dinner we headed to downtown Portland to visit with Adam, one of Ian's good friends from HS who wasn't going to the reunion. We had a nice time catching up with him. He took us to a little coffeehouse called the Pied Cow for some dessert. It was delicious. The weather was perfect too. Nice and cool. It felt great after the 96 degree weather we had left. We ended up getting home pretty late.

We sort of slept in the next morning and took things really slow. My FIL had recorded the finale of SYTYCD for me, so I watched that. I was happy with the winner. Good stuff. I'm glad that it's not really over since the next season is this Fall instead of next summer. Once we finally got going we went with Denny to the furniture store to see the new stuff they had ordered. It's always fun to browse furniture. After that we went and all got pedicures. It was nice. I haven't gotten one since the last time Denny was here at my house. I got purple toes to match my dress I wore to the reunion that night.

Ian and I ate Subway then headed off to see a movie. We saw 500 Days of Summer. We really enjoyed it. It's always nice to do something fun like that when we don't have the kids and don't have to get a babysitter. By the time our little date was over it was time to go home and get ready for the big reunion!

The reunion was held at the Persimmon Country Club. It was a pretty standard Conference/Event room though. We got there and started visiting. That's really all we did. After the dinner, the committee did a little general questioning to see what everyone was up to. You know, who was married, for how long, how many kids they had, who worked in what fields, etc. There was supposed to be dancing, so the music was really loud after dinner. Only about 5 people were dancing though, so it was mostly just really annoying. The loud music was our main complaint though. Ian had fun catching up with people and I knew a couple people, so I wasn't completely bored. Here's Ian with his friend, Becky. I spent a good part of the evening visiting with her too.
***Addendum: I grabbed a few more reunion photos from Facebook.
We didn't stay too late. Ian finished visiting with everyone he wanted to talk to and then we left around 11pm. I would say we had a good time, but not an $80 a person good time. Oh well. The next morning all of Ian's siblings and their spouses came over for breakfast. It was really fun to get to spend some time with them without the kids running around. We ate and talked and played bananagrams. We also got to hold baby Ivy.


Later that afternoon we met up with Becky again for lunch. After that it was time to pack up and head for the airport. We had an uneventful flight and got to Nicole's house at about 8:45pm. Both the boys were asleep, so we visited for a little bit then got them all bundled into the car and came home. We were all pretty tired yesterday, but Davin only napped for 45 minutes. What a punk. It is nice to be home for good and know I have weeks and weeks before I have to get out any sort of luggage again. Today has been catch up day. We had no food in the house. We had no library books. I have YW at my house tomorrow, so we are plenty busy. Weston and I just finished watching Charlotte's Web together while Davin took a real nap. Time to get a little prep work done for YW tomorrow. Watch me go!