Newport Seafood and Wine Festival

This past weekend was the 35th Seafood and Wine Festival in Newport. We've gone for several years now, and it's fun. I enjoyed getting out of town for a couple days, and there are worse things to do than eat Mo's chowder, Rogue Ales fish & chips, and drink wine. Of course, we experienced typical Oregon Coast weather. It rained off and on, and the sun finally came out as we headed home on Sunday.

Still, Still Healing

My foot, that is. I had an x-ray last week and it shows the break is healing. It's just not completely healed. I'm happy to be done with the crutches, but I'm still really bummed about not being back to full speed and agility. It's frustrating!

I did make it to yoga this week. It's a challenge with my inability to fully use my foot, but it felt good to move again. These last few weeks of inactivity have not been good. Unfortunately, yoga was not the experience I was hoping for. My favorite teachers is gone. Sometime in the last two months she has moved on, but I don't know where. Tonight's class was good, but I was really looking forward to seeing Erica.

Birthday Weekend

Yep. I had a birthday last week.

Birthday day is one of those days when middle schoolers can be unbelievably sweet. One my seventh graders made me cupcakes, and another brought me a little present. Then I got a couple of handmade cards. My eighth graders sand horribly off-key renditions of "Happy Birthday" and by the end of the day I was ready for a bit of piece and quiet.

On Saturday, I headed up to Portland to hang with my HS bestie. She made yummy soup and polenta fries for dinner. We killed a couple bottles of wine and spent the evening just hanging out. It's always great to hang with friends when you don't have much time to do that.

Sunday was the family celebration. Coffee (Pepsi in my case) and pastries with the parents at Panera, then mom made my favorite dinner of fried elk steak, potatoes and gravy for dinner. My sister and her entire family came. And for dessert we had homemade apple pie and ice cream.

It was a good birthday weekend. :)