Bachelorette and Rafting

Two fun trips.

Ken took Brian and Drew rafting on the Deschutes River with 20+ of our dodgeball friends. Kinley went, too. They had a blast. Kinley loves rafting and the water, but was exhausted afterwards. Can you blame him? Look at him hitting the bottle!



Ken has some other staged pictures that are hilarious. And some really great ones of them all in the river. We'll try to get them up soon.

Meanwhile, six of us went down to Yachats (about 3.5 hours SW on the coast).
We played lots of games, spent all day Saturday reading and hanging out on the beach and went out on Saturday night to the local bar. There was a group of seven 14 year old boys who were camping in the yard next door. They took off their shirts to impress us (per the mom) and even had a dance routine planned for us. Hilarious. I bet they were sad when we closed the curtains before they could perform their routine. We're kind of sad we missed it, too. I bet it would have been funny. We reminisced how happy we were that we weren't 14 anymore. And in all, we had a great time. We got home around 6:30 last night and we all crashed around 10.

There are 6 people staying at our house right now (Ken and myself not included). Plus two additional dogs. Everyone but brian and marsha head to Netarts tomorrow and then the four of us and kinley will head down on Thursday night for Sara and Drew's wedding. Should be a blast. They're expecting 86 people. And they're doing pies instead of wedding cake which is awesome. Many of Sara's friends and family are making the pies (15-20 pies total). I'm thinking about doing a chocolate cream pie. Marsha's doing a lemon one. And Brian (who doesn't know it yet) is making an apple one with a salt crust that is apparently fantastic.