Sightseeing Part 2

A few days after the dust settled from our busy week with the Torrenzanos, one of my best friends, Rob, came to visit before he started his job in NYC. It was really great to have him here, and to spend some time together before he joined the real world. On Thursday we spent the day in Eugene, I showed him around campus, and we started having cocktails in the late afternoon on our front yard. Before the night was over we had met up with a bunch of friends of mine from the program, bar-hopped in downtown Eugene, and had a nightcap in our apartment with some wine we had picked up earlier in the evening. The Willamette valley is home to some of the best wines in the country, so i've made it a goal to get to know some of it before i leave.

We laid low on Friday, headed to Portland on Saturday for the day, and then had a great trip to the Coast on Sunday. First we stopped and had lunch at the Sea lion caves where we saw a number of sea lions and even a couple gray whales in the water! We kept moving north and took a hike in a place called Cape Perpetua which brought us through the forest right on the edge of the coast. I've never seen the sun shine brighter than at the top of that mountain, as it reflected off the Pacific. After the hike, we went down to the beach (check out the pictures of the sandy route we took) and put our feet in the water, and then headed up to the next town to have dinner and catch the sunset. We dropped Rob off that night, and i've been going through the pictures since, trying to pick out the best ones to post in an album.

I have gotten a lot of good feedback from family and friends about the blog, and i'm so happy to be able to share everything we're doing out here. Please please let me know if there is anything i can do to improve it, or if there is anything else you want to hear about. I hope everyone's summers were great, and everyone is doing well!

From Cape Perpetua