This week in Grants Pass

Well, we arrived in Oregon on Monday. The Lesinas were driving back from their annual family camping trip in the wilds of Northern California and and had arranged to pick us up in Medford. We landed slightly before they could get there, so we took a taxi to our favourite Pizza Bar/Restaurant - Kaleidoscope - and had lunch there, finishing in perfect time, just as they arrived.

We all drove over to Grants Pass and started to settle in. The rest of the week has been spent mostly in Delsie Drive as Scott and Lucy returned to work - Scott is doing 10 days in a row prior to us leaving for Southern California next weekend to meet Gary and Luca.

It's been getting hotter each day - yesterday (Friday), it reached 108 F and today must be at least as high - it feels that way anyway.

The boys are happy to be home, back in the comfort of their own rooms again. We've only taken them out twice this week - once to our favourite book store Barnes & Noble in Medford, and the other time locally to Fred Meyer to try to get a game for Braeden, who still has birthday money to burn. The price of our book store trip was another lunch at Kaleidoscope - not at all painful - and we took the surplus Mozarella sticks back home in a box.

Scott has been busy on the BBQ and Lucy has delivered a steady supply of various cocktails - it's nice to be back here.

I've been out cycling 3 times this week. On one of my excursions through Rogue C. College grounds, I came across this totem pole:

The rest of the week can be told in pictures:

My Father's Day cards - Cade's on the left and the rest of the Lesina's on the right, with the "stubby cooler" below

On their camping trip, Scott came across these relics of a long-lost railway line in the wilds. We couldn't quite figure out exactly what they were.

This was taken in Grants Pass today to try to provide a comparison.

Grants Pass always has a selection of bears in different poses Downtown each year

Lucy took us to her work - a new building that she moved in to last year. This is the treatment pool.

No, it's not a gym - this is Lucy's work again. The equipment is for patients.

Cade tries on some of the OT mechanical aids.

Practising certificates in After-care. Lucy's on the right, second down.

Judy, one of Lucy's work colleagues has some blueberry bushes at her home and allows the public to come in and buy - pre-picked or pick your own. 

Judy's husband, Pete, was constructing this tree house and he showed us around.

Back at Delsie Drive, Lucy shared her birthday present from Kelly - frozen cheesecake lollies.