Trip to Bend

Dalia and I took advantage of a work trip Mark took to Bend last week. We were so glad to get away for a few days after so many weeks of relentless rain and gray skies and same ol' same ol'. The sun was out almost the whole time we were there, aside from a few thunder showers and some chilly weather, we gladly walked the 10-20 minutes to the park every day. The playground we found (over a beautiful bridge that crossed the Deschutes river in Old Bend) had a boat! for Dalia to climb around in and practice her pirate skills (she says, "oh, matey"). She is also now completely graduated to the "big girl swings", which makes her very proud.

While there, we also visited an awesome library where very little book reading goes on in the kid's area due to the Thomas train set and table and 10 other wall games and huge stuffed animals. But, it was a nice change. We also got to go swimming every day, which just about blew Dalia's mind. She loves swimming. I'm looking forward to swimming lessons at our neighborhood pool this summer. The last day of swimming she decided she wanted to go in without her swimmies and she did GREAT. I'm excited for the future swimming and playing in the water with her.

We had a few fun outings with Daddy, even though he was mostly working while we were there. We got to go out and eat dinner every night and found a couple of nature parks to play around at with Daddy.



Dalia has proven to be as good a traveler as her parents are. We are endlessly grateful for this. We had a great drive home yesterday, eating chocolate and stopping to see some sights. Mostly we just enjoyed the scenery together and giggled a lot.


Can't wait for our next trip! And, to top it all off, we came home to 83 degrees and SUNNY!!!! Hooray. Summer may actually be here.