Seven Year Itch.......NO WAY

Mark and I went away for the weekend to celebrate our 7th wedding anniversary (it will be 15 years together in September....ack - we are getting old!). Joanie babysat the kids. Friday night we went to a concert at Edgefield in the Columbia River Gorge and that is just heaven -- good beer, good views, and it was a great concert. We saw Sugarland and they were actually really good -- there was whole lot of cowboy hats. My favorite part was when they sang "Betterman" by Pearl Jam and Mark and I were SO EXCITED and sang along.....only to notice we were the only ones who knew the words. After the concert we went on to Skamania Lodge. Skamania is this magical lodge in the heart of the Gorge that sits up on a hill and has an INCEDRIDIBLE view of the gorge and has a very lodge-like feel. Saturday we went for an awesome hike up Hamilton Mountain and saw waterfalls and really great views of the Gorge, Hood, Helens and Adams. On Saturday night we spent most of it on the deck watching two weddings, drinking nummy beer and doing the play by play commentary of the wedding and wedding guests. Oh...if only we could have "rewatched" ours, there would have been some funny scenes. All in all it was a great weekend alone in the pacific northwest. When we got back to Portland I swear that Henry was a bit bummed...he wanted more Grandma time. Apparently they came to an agreement that he could wear his PJS all day and could watch cartoons/movies while Francie napped. Party on. Attached are the pictures we could get on our cell phone. I brought our camera....only to realize that it did not have a memory stick in it. Nice. Guess what happens in Skamania stays in Skamania.