YAY for visits from old friends! Our good friends Jen and Sarah came up for a visit here in Portland! Reese was super excited to meet two of her "aunts" and I was super excited for a chance to hang out with my girlfriends. They were happy to escape the heat of AZ for a few days and we were happy to do the tourist thing again.
They came in on Thursday and we pretty much just hung out, went out to lunch at the Kennedy School and showed them around the Happy Valley. On Friday, we did wine country! Todd was nice enough to be our chauffeur for the day and we took advantage of it. We did 5 of the wineries that day and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves! We even met a woman from Tucson who had opened a winery (Bella Vida) up here with her husband. They spend their summers up here working their tasting room and the winters down in Tucson where she is a pediatric physical therapist....not a bad way to do it that's for sure! We cooked a famous Spencer Casa dinner that night and just enjoyed the company!
On Saturday, we made a visit to the Portland Zoo! This was a new one for Todd and I too as I had heard the zoo here is great....and it turns out it is! For the price of a movie ticket ($10.50) you get quite the experience at this zoo. Of course, I love about any zoo. So, you can bet once Reese is a little bit older, I will be all over the annual pass. We'll be there every weekend! I love it and hope she will as well. For now, she could really care less. Oh well....someday! That night we also headed out for dinner at a restaurant in downtown PDX called Dragonfish. Funny story, so I called for reservations and told them we had 6 people. "No problem" the hostess told me. Then Todd reminded me to ask for a high-chair as well. Her response then changed to "ohh....well, we will have to see if we can arrange that. I will have to call you back". Ummm...OK. She did call be back and let me know that they were able to make the arrangements. Great. So, we get there that night and they had set us up in a completely private room! Crazy! I guess they really don't like babies in their restaurant. The ironic thing is, she is usually totally quiet in restaurants....except that night. The "private room" ended up being too quiet and she did freak out a bit. She needs the dull roar of the crowd to lull her to sleep I guess! Ha!
Anyway, after a girly morning of mani/pedi time, we said adios to Jen and Sarah on Sunday morning. It was such a great visit and I really miss being closer to our friends and family. We do hope to eventually get back to AZ, but in the meantime, we are just happy to have such wonderful family and friends who come to visit us! We love ya'll!!
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That's funny about the restaurant/baby thing. We went to Ft. Lauderdale earlier this year and when we got to the restaurant of choice, we were told they didn't have high chairs. Who just doesn't have high chairs?! It wasn't a super fancy place but I guess they didn't like kids either.
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