I can’t believe it has been a whole year since we picked this sweet puppy up from a van in the best buy parking lot in Eugene. It was love at first sight for sure and we love having this crazy, sweet, and very energetic puppy in our little family.
The progression of giant ears
and today!
Love this little monkey.
Before shot… all geared up and ready to zipline!
a couple of other shots
relaxing with these folks
monkeys and butterflies
the trees don’t love the monkeys so much
Lots of time at the beautiful beaches
We got back and went down to California for a visit with Bret’s Dad. We got some beautiful, but cold weather.
Then we got to spend a day with these two before heading back to Oregon.
Love this guy! It has been a couple of very excellent years!
Bret and Oval at the beach from Ej Comfort on Vimeo.
We have definitely settled back in to our Corvallis life after our European adventure. Emily’s parents and sister came to visit but other than that I have been really busy at work and staying close to home. Emily has taken a couple of short trips to see friends but mostly we have been homebodies.
We had a wonderful trip to Bandon Dunes with Emily’s folks. I don’t have any pictures of the dunes but took some pictures of the coast on the way back and on a run while we were there.
I got a new camera and started playing around with taking some hummingbird pictures.
And Fitton Green
And finally, our friends Chris and Nikki left for Alaska this week. Best of luck you guys on your new adventure!
Our trip to Greece was amazing as Emily has already blogged. Thanks to Jim and Debbie for being such great hosts.
Morpheus, our home for the week
The islands are dotted with these old grain windmills
View from our hotel on Ios
Typical city street on the islands
City on the island of Ios
View from the top of the previous picture
Beach on Ios
Cites on Santorini
Cave on Antiparos
Jim kiteboarding
The Acropolis
From our hotel
And did Emily mention the food. It was fantastic! Lots of fresh seafood eaten right on the water.
When I dropped Bret off in Nantes on a rainy day, I felt bad that he would be stuck there for three weeks while I got to travel around. Turns out I was really glad to have a few days to explore around there myself. So many cool things in town… a castle with a serious moat, some underground canals as well as some surface level ones that were nice to explore, an old shipping terminal that had been updated with bars and restaurants, lots of cool art all over the town. However, Les Machines d l’ile really made the visit there special. Seriously, this place could not be cooler! We got to ride the elephant.
the inside is big enough for stairs
This is the hall where it lives. It is an old flea market that was converted to the workshop/ museum for the machines.
The museum was worth a visit as well. I loved that they had ‘specimen labels’ for all the creations.
I was sad I was too old to ride the carousel.
We are definitely going back to Nantes when the full scale version of this is complete:
