A Happy Anniversary

To celebrate our 29th wedding anniversary we had planned on going to an arts and craft show at Ocean Parks. When we rechecked the data the morning we were to leave we discovered it was really going to be at Ocean Shores which is much farther than we wanted to drive. Therefore we spent a rather stressful 45 minutes trying to come up with a plan B (which wasn’t made easier by the forecast of possible thunder showers.) We finally decided to go to the Oregon Gardens in Silverton. We have recently discovered an interest in gardening over the past year or two so this sounded like a good plan.

We hurried out the door after saying a quick good bye to Laura and Teresa who were headed up to Jonathan and Tonia’s for the weekend. We were hurrying out the door because we were late for church. Our church has been having special services since Wednesday in honor of Founder’s Week. This year the teaching is on The Judgment Seat of Christ. Saturday’s session was the end of that particular series of teaching although the teacher, Rick Howard, will be preaching Sunday also and we have continued meetings until Tuesday’s love feast to finish off the week. We arrived only slightly late and Linda had saved a seat for us. We enjoyed the teaching and it gave us a lot to ponder and talk about. It’s a subject we probably don’t think enough about.

After feeding the dog and grabbing our lunch we’d made, we headed out. On the way we discovered we had left the directions and camera so we made a quick turnaround by the Monticello hotel. One stop at Kaiser for some meds and we were on our way. We had a good trip down. We do our best talking in the car it seems. We arrived at the gardens about 3:15. We decided to take the tram for a general overview and then walk some. Everything was beautiful. We covered most of the park, both by tram and walking, before it started to pour about 5:45 and we had just reached the gift shop so the timing was good. We felt compassion for the bridal party whose outdoor wedding was to start at 6:00. We were glad we were not the parents of the bride or groom facing the move to inside the pavilion.

We took a few pictures of plants we might want to add to our garden in the future. We then started looking for a place to eat. We ended up at a Thai place in Woodburn that was nice. We ended the night at home watching a Netflick movie Wait until Dark which was suspenseful.