Summertime fun - Part II

Our day started with a trip to the Olympia Farmer's Market - always a fun treat. I bought some farm fresh carrots and a jar of raspberry pepper jam. It has just enough pepper to give it a little 'bite'. It's wonderful atop of a dollup of cream cheese on a cracker.

Then we headed to Burfoot park for a picnic lunch. Stephanie & Nick and Matt & his sister spent many a summer day there, floating on an inflatable crocodile or an occasional log. Good times.


Not only was this Cooper's first picnic lunch, it was his first beach visit, too. Apparently he wasn't impressed as he slept through the majority of it.


This is Glynn, being a good sport while desperately seeking a breeze & shade on the hot beach.


After a dinner at Pepper's Mexican restaurant downtown, we built a fire in the pit, toasted marshmallows and had s'mores. Nick's high school friend, Doug, Matt's dad, Glen and Craig and Kathleen who happened to be passing through town all joined us for an evening of fun and laughs.


This morning, Susan's taxi service ferried them back to the airport for their return trip home. Good byes are sad.... Hopefully Steph and Matt will be home again for Christmas. (Arrgghh - Christmas is only 4 months away. How is that possible?)