LABOR DAY / LOEB 8/29-9/4/2012

Oh what a wonderful, memory filled weekend we have just spent!  From about 1991 - 2006 we and two other couples and our families have spent labor Day Weekend together at Loeb State Park near Brookings, Oregon.  Each year we invited more families to join us tot he point that sometimes there were 70-80 parents and children with us.
But, since 2006 with us being retired, serving a mission and traveling we have not been back until now.  So, we three couples got together without kids and spent some "campfire time" traveling down memory lane and catching up on where our lives have been since the last "Loeb".  It was grand!
We arrived at Loeb and set up in Space 50 on Wednesday, August 29th.  Then Mark and Dawn arrived in the afternoon of Thursday.  We set them up with their tent in our site.

 Then, no sooner had we got them set up and our son from New York called and asked if we would be able to meet up with them up in Chehallis, WA in a week or so.  We did some figuring on the calendar and changed next weeks plans.

  Our weekend was spent visiting a lot.  Lots to discuss of memories, catch up and plans for the future.

Every morning and then each evening we would sit around the camp fire, just plain ol' visiting some more.  Here Mark gets some of the evening wood ready.

 Then we also fixed lots of meals together and ate and ate.

 Then we would eat some more.  Sometimes we ate outside at the picnic table and sometimes inside the trailer.

 And sometimes after a strol in Brookings or on the beach we ate out at sea food places.

 Then we would eat some more.  It felt like we did a lot of eating!

 But we did go on hikes, explored, visited with fellow campers, cruised town and the beach and walked down by the Chetco River.

 The scenery here was beautiful and the atmosphere and weather perfect.  So was the company!

 On Saturday our good friends Kirk and Kathy showed up and we met them in town for lunch.

  Then we walked on Harris Beach and went back to our camp for an evening of making tin foil dinners and an evening of campfire visits.  Good times, good memories with people we love.  20 plus years of friendships and raising families together. 

 Kirk and Kathy had to leave Saturday evening and then Mark and Dawn on Monday.  Monday, as Mark and Dawn left, I got to live out a dream I have had for 10-15 years.  Ann and I got to wave goodbye to all the Loebite friends as they drove back to work at the end of a wonderful weekend together.....and we stayed behind at Loeb for one more night....free to stay longer...unencumbered by needing to go to work on Tuesday.  Finally, today, I got to fulfill that dream!!

 Then, left alone at Loeb with other fellow retirees, we relaxed.  Ann went for a walk in the Chetco River.....

 ...and Wayne found a nice comfy spot in the sun.

 The rest of Monday was spent catching up on dishes, emails, this blog and planning how, where and when for our trip up to Chehallis, WA to meet up with our son, Jed and his family.  WE GET TO SPEND SOME TIME WITH GREEN HORNET AGAIN!!!  YEE HAW!!