Oregon with the Meskil Clan

Last week we took advantage of a long weekend and headed to Oregon for a Meskil-style family trip. We started with an evening in Greenville, SC thanks to an early morning flight. We celebrated Al's birthday and hung out with my folks for the evening. After the long day of travel we landed in Portland and drove a very impressive mini van (ask Marcus, he loved it) to Corvallis. Once Missy and Andy finished work we quickly started enjoying wine, beer and a super yummy pizza (we loved the pizza so much we ate it three times while we were there, once was for breakfast). Even though we were only there for a few days we packed in a lot of great stuff...thanks to our awesome tour guides. We spent the first day hanging around Corvallis (shopping) and then had a little house party with Andy and Missy's friends...great food and the cutest kids :). The next day we headed to Newport on the coast...we saw the sea loins, visited a few shops, toured the aquarium, visited Rogue brewery (Marcus' highlight) and walked on the beach...I don't know if it could have gotten any better! The Clam Chowder and Nut Brown Ale at Rogue was the best part if you ask me. On Monday, we headed to Portland to shop around town and hang out at Edgefields which was an amazing place...if I'd known about it sooner we might have spent the whole vacation there. It's a hostel style hotel (former sanitarium) with sweet little rooms, at least 10 bars on site, it's own brewery, winery and distillery and tons of gardens to explore. It was absolutely amazing (we'll be going back, no doubt). We loved hanging out with Missy and Andy and get a taste of their stomping grounds...

And, the best part, we can now announce that the first Meskil niece or nephew is in the making....congrats to Missy and Andy!!!