Perfect Weekend

This was one of those perfect weekends Or daughter who lives in Washington DC flew out Friday for the Weekend. Her Mother and I picked her up at the Medford /Jackson County Airport Friday afternoon. Friday night she took us out to dinner at the Bella Union in Jacksonville. We sat outside on their back patio. They had their overhead heaters on and it was a nice evening. The waiter saw my Oregon hat and we talked about the Ducks and their upcoming football game with Washington. He was a Duck fan and he wanted to go to the Cal game. After dinner we window shopped in downtown Jacksonville an old time Western town. Saturday morning my daughter and I drove to Eugene for the Oregon Game with Washington. (see posts below) It rained most of the way to Eugene but it stopped for much of the game and with our rain gear we stayed fairly dry. The Ducks won and we had a good time. We ran into some Medford friends just outside the Mo Center. After the game we went by Hayward Field( Oregon's venerable track field) and saw the new entrance with it's hall of fame . Just that day it was announced that the 2008 US Olympic Track Trials will be held at Hayward Field. They beat out Sacramento where the last two Olympic trials have been held. From there we headed home. We stopped at Applebee’s in Roseburg for dinner and were home by 9 pm. Sunday the three of us went to Ashland for lunch at Standing Stone Brewing Co. After lunch we walked through Lithia Park. It was a beautiful sunny day. The leaves are turning and it was a perfect fall day. We walked to the upper duck pond and even saw a turtle. From there we walked around the downtown shops ( Ashland is sort of Oregon's Carmel without Clint Eastwood) and had some ice-cream. We went home and called her brother on the telephone who is a student at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon and the four of us had a nice conversation. We left for the airport at 6 pm for our daughter's "red eye" flight through San Francisco to Washington DC. My wife and I then came home to an empty house. It seemed so quiet with her gone. We sure enjoyed her visit. We will get together again at Christmas.