Our Amazing Weekend And The Festivities Of The 4th

This weekend Rich and I had a great time! I think it was one of the most relaxing weekends we've had in a really long time. On Friday we went to pick cherries (you can read about it in the post directly under this one). In the afternoon, we went down to the river with some friends and got some tubes and floated down the river for about an hour. You get in at the south end of town and then you get out at the north end of town...It was really nice to cool off since it finally got warm! After we floated down the river we went to another place with a rope swing and played in the river some more. Then we went back to our friends house and helped him fix his girlfriends car. After a few hours we cooked up some hamburgers and had a bonfire in their backyard.

On Saturday the 4th, we went back over to our friends house and worked on the car some more (it's turning out to be a big problem because we had to take a lot of the parts out to get to the part we needed). After a few hours of that we had some lunch and then decided to go float down the river again. This time we went even further south before we got in the river so we could float longer. It was a lot of fun. Once we got out we went home to get a quick shower and change. We all met back up at our friends house and we all piled into their big pickup and drove down to the river for fireworks. We hung out for a while and set off some of our own fireworks and then the big fireworks went off.

This is where our amazing weekend had a little bit of a detour to Dullsville...The big fireworks ended up being somewhat of a flop. They only lasted about 10 minutes and it was one firework at a time and the finale was about 5 fireworks at once and that was it!

Can you believe this was the finale? That was literally it.

Maybe that's what fireworks are supposed to be, but I remember having lots and lots of fireworks and having patriotic music playing along with them...and being longer than 10 minutes. It was just really weird. Once we got back to our friends house, they wanted to have another bonfire but it was already about 11:00pm so we went home and went to bed. We were both so tired! I think I finally got some color though, the sun came out and I'm not as white as I was last week...that's always a good sign of a good weekend!

Sunday was our first anniversary! That was a good day too. It was full of it's own ups and downs though. It started out just fine, we got up and went to church and came home afterwards. I actually had some homework to do (because I'm taking a summer class. It's only 4 weeks long though and I started week 3 today so it's almost over and I can have my summer back!). So I had some homework to do and we needed to go grocery shopping. Rich decided to go to the store by himself so that I could get my homework done. When he came back, he had a big bunch of pretty flowers and a candy bar! It was so sweet! I think I'm liking this whole anniversary thing ;)

(The candy bar isn't there becuase it was already consumed :) )

Later that day we decided to go out to dinner. We both thought that Chineese food sounded good and there's a great place in Albany called Pings. So we drive all the way out to Albany to see a sing on the door that says, "Closed for Vacation". I guess everyone went on vacation at the same time or it's a family business or something. Since we were in Albany I went into Old Navy to gram some new flip flops because I actually had holes in my black ones. So then we came back to Corvallis and if we wanted to eat anywhere in Corvallis on 1st street we would need to change. So we went home long enough to change and then went back to 1st street. Once we got out and started walking we saw that not just one restaurant was closed on Sunday, but every single restaurant was closed on 1st street...and 2nd street... We got back into the car and drove to the south end of town becuase we heard about a place down there and when we saw the menu, it didn't look good at all. So we drove back downtown and found a place to eat. It's called Block 15 and it was really good. We ended up driving around for about an hour and a half before we actually ate. All in all, it was still fun, the food was great and I wouldn't want to spend my anniversary any other way than with my wonderful husband! I love you!!