Finally a Break in the Rain

And what a perfect day to finally get some sunshine! The weather here has been absolutely dismal, but lucky for us, we had a very sunny day yesterday...and then of course today going to church, it was back to buckets of rain.
Friday night we drove down to Lebanon, Oregon with our good friends the Palomins to stay the night at Doreen's dad's house for the night. He is renting it out and it was empty so we slept on blow up mattresses for the night and there was no furniture, but we didn't need it. It is located in a very pretty part of Oregon up on the hill in Lebanon, and Sodaville, OR population: 303 In the mornings and evenings they have turkeys...that's right wild turkeys that walk through their yard up to the trees, and then back in the evening. A few came through in the early morning when we were there but I missed them because we were still sleeping.

We went to the Strawberry Festival down there, which included a huge parade in the morning of about 140 floats. Sam's favorite thing was collecting the fliers people would hand out and putting them in her "super hooray bag!" (she thought "parade" was "hooray") They also had the worlds largest strawberry shortcake there too, it was huge! And what's a festival without a carnival full of deep fried Snickers, popcorn, and a bunch of rides that Sam had so much fun riding.

We had a wonderful time with Robert, Doreen, and Jessica and hope that they still like us after spending and overnighter together! Good times!