Vacation (2) .Cape Cod.

After a full day in the city my dad drove us down to the Cape where we would spend the rest of our time. My grandma has a "beach house" right on the water near Buzzards Bay so it's super relaxing and has some amazing sunsets!  Jeremy and I also enjoyed walking around during low tide looking for oysters, mussles, clams, shells, etc... we found a lot, but were never brave enough to eat anything.  The last day we were there the neighbors let us go out on their boat with them - Jeremy got to help pull lobster pots and luckily there was a live one in one of the pots!  We got to take it home and we enjoyed it for a little afternoon snack :)  While on the cape we also spent some time driving around with my parents, my dad loves playing tour guide, so we saw lots of sites and ate lots of great seafood.  

Again check shutterfly for the majority of pics, but here are a few from my phone:

Steps at my grandma's place... used to spend hours and hours playing here when I was younger

Gorgeous view.

Stairs down to the beach.... I adore these stairs! 

All the shells in front of the rock are from the seagulls - they grab live clams and then drop them on the rock to open them :)

Onset Beach.

Lobster caught by Jeremy and the neighbors.

Pier at Onset Beach.

Onset.

Vacation! .Boston.

Jeremy and I were lucky enough to get a week off work at the same time to go visit Boston and Cape Cod. My dad's side of the family is all over there, I used to go visit all the time when I was younger but it had been like 5 years since I had been - Jeremy had never been or met that side of the family!

We arrived in Boston and spent one night in the city, our hotel was literally steps away from Faneuil Hall Marketplace... and of course only steps away from a Dunkin Donuts!  Mmm. So we spent the first two days touring around the city, eating and drinking the whole time - I will be posting a TON of pictures from the trip on Shutterfly but here are some of the city from my phone.

See iphone pics below:

WELCOME TO BOSTON!  Now walk about two miles to pick up your bag.... 

Sam Adams, Boston Brick Red - awesome beer, we had it everywhere we could because it's only sold right in Boston!  Hope someday they bottle it and sell it... 

Cool sign near Cheers in Faneuil Hall Marketplace

Home of the auto refilling beers ;)

AWESOME CLAM CHOWDER HERE!  

And the waitresses are pretty funny too. Ours fed my dad the food he left on his plate :) 

Original Durgin Park workers... 

Gorgeous HOT/HUMID day walking the Freedom Trail.

On a pier in Boston. 

The brewery tour... Jeremy's one request for the trip :) 

Smelling some grains at Sam Adams

Mmmmm tasters. Such a fun tour. 

Beers after the tour at Doyles Cafe - we got to keep the glasses! 

Outside Harvard University... waiting for my cousin Marco and his girlfriend

What We Do For Fun...

We're usually pretty nice to Cutter, but it's kinda funny to drive him crazy!

A Day in the Woods

Jeremy's parents have property out in the woods, in a town out near the coast.  They are doing a lot of work up there to clear parts of the land to make shed's and paths, etc. Jeremy goes up often to help, and I sometimes go up to sit and enjoy the quietness while getting some magazines read :) Cutter loves it because he can run around freely!   Here are some pictures from a recent trip up there, Jeremy's mom made baked potatoes and corn over the fire, yummy!   iPhone pic story:

Nebraskan's Visit Oregon!

Last week Jeremy and I were lucky enough to host my friends Angela and Greg while they visited Oregon. This was Greg's first time to the west coast, and Angela had not been here since she was very young so they were both very excited. I think the difference between Oregon and Nebraska was summed up when Greg said "there's so many trees here!". So true :) haha. Although Jeremy and I both had to work a lot during the week, we did get a few chances to show our friends around town - mostly drinking and eating, which is what we do best these days! Angela's family was in town as well so they kept busy doing other touristy things while Jeremy and I were at work. Here is our time with them via iPhone pics, enjoy!

Right outside Widmer Brothers Brewing:

Ang and I enjoying our Widmer Brothers beer... got her hooked on "Sunburn" beer!

At Happy Hour right outside Jeremy's work at OHSU near the waterfront.

Coconut martini (but I ordered a cucumber martini, got this instead, oh well, it was okay):

Spring rolls with shrimp:

At Lucky Lab Brewery, dogs allowed too!

Couple days later at Basta's, on 21st street - happy hour Basil Lemon Drop Martini:

North 45 Pub on 21st street, such yummy happy hour food:

Strange items in the Voo Doo Donut case!

Ah, old town Portland.... love this sign.