Saturday, August 30, 2014

19. Friday-Saturday August 29-30 Wayne and Nita in Carleton, Oregon

Friday; Drove to the Oregon Gardens in Silverton. A fascinating, very large garden east of Salem. We took a tram ride around the complex and then wandered through different garden settings.

One of many beds

Moss covered roof tops

Hidden garden spots

After the tour, we went into Silverton for lunch at Macs Pub. Marvelous!

A fixture since 1890

Lunch on the creek

We went to a dinner at the Ken Wright Winery held for the running team our host runs for. Oregon wine is way better than Virginia wine, sorry......

Saturday: A more relaxed day. Toni and Nita did the Goodwill shopping thing, Lee and Wayne installed a new stove in the Wiebke's rental unit.

Lee and Wayne went to the Evergreen International Air Museum in McMinnville, OR. to pick up the runner package for Wayne and let Lee see the Howard Hughes Spruce Goose airplane (again). Howard Hughes was WAY ahead of his time.

B-17G bomber

Too cheap to pay admission, we saw the tail of the Spruce Goose

DC-3. The king of the air for decades.
Saturday night is a dinner in Carleton with Wayne and Nita's friends, then off on Sunday morning to the coast early as Wayne runs a half marathon. We prefer riding in a car to running 13.1 miles. Anyday.....



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