After a long day at work I was ready to hit the hay, but to my lucky surprise Jared called saying he was close and wanted to take me out to dinner. He had been up East of Portland to pick something up and then spend the afternoon with Walt and Sara at the Steam Up in Brooks. For some reason I thought the event was in Albany and there would be no chance I would get to see him this weekend, so you can imagine my surprise and happiness when he said he was about 45 min away.
We went to Ruby Tuesdays for dinner
I had an AMAZING burger: an Avocado Turkey Burger with slices of fresh avocado, Havarti cheese, and applewood smoked bacon. Yumm Yumm
Not my burger, but same kind, I wanted to show how yummy it looked :D
After dinner we went for a walk at the park near the library in Mac. It was so nice to walk arm in arm in the evening breeze. We found a plastic play ground which had an amazing slide that twisted and turned all the way down. Jared tried it first but part way down he managed to get spun around, it was so great I had to get a picture on my phone.
We then walked back towards the van and read a few historical markers and right behind the Library we found a wonderful old wooden playground. Jared decided that bark dust was hot lava and was determined not to touch the ground the whole time we were there. We had a little plane/boat (not really sure what it was) and slides, walkways made tires, chains, floating wood, tire swings, monkey bars, ect. At one point I went over to the bigger tire swing and could walk there because I had "lava proof flip flops" but Jared had some trouble. He climbed up slides, jumped over castle walls, leaped to the fence and then crawled along it until he reach an area parallel to the support poles for the tire swing. The then leaped and twirled around the pole, rebounded and leaped to the swing. It was sure a blast to "play" together, he has such a playful and fun spirited soul that does not always surface but I am so glad that he has that trait. We just had a blast together.
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