{"id":1165,"date":"2009-05-26T15:19:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-26T22:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/?p=1165"},"modified":"2009-05-29T08:56:48","modified_gmt":"2009-05-29T15:56:48","slug":"river-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/?p=1165","title":{"rendered":"River Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the long weekend, Josh decided to rent this giant powertool digging machine for working on his backyard. \u00a0Kevin, never one to turn down the chance to play with a very large tool thingy, was more than eager to head over and check things out. \u00a0Since neither Kat, nor I, were too excited about said digging vehicle, we decided to leave the boys to their toys and do a bit of river exploring. \u00a0 Portland is many wonderful things and a great part of its beauty lies in all of it’s rivers. \u00a0I’m a beach girl myself and never really saw the appeal of rivers but I decided maybe it was time I checked it out. \u00a0So, armed with a book about cool hiking trails in Portland, us girls headed out for an adventure. \u00a0We decided to try a river park called Kelly Point Park which was about 10 minutes away from Kat’s house. \u00a0We drove through a massive industrial dock area and then, wham-o, we turned the corner and were engulfed by huge trees and dappled sunlight. \u00a0Don’t you just love it when you find a pocket of green in the midst of grey concrete? \u00a0We parked the car and headed down the hiking path with the other families. \u00a0There were a ton of very happy looking dogs, fishing poles, and coolers around. \u00a0The path lead through some trees and then down to the banks of the Willamette river and it was gorgeous.<\/p>\n

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Who knew there was sand at the river? \u00a0I sure didn’t. \u00a0And it was beautiful, white, clean sand too! \u00a0Since it’s a river, there was none of that annoying sticky salt feeling you get at the beach and no stinky smell. \u00a0The trees reached almost to the water line so there were only pockets of cleared space all along the river bank. \u00a0Kat and I settled onto a fallen log to chat while the girls ran and played and splashed. \u00a0We felt like we had the river all to ourselves. \u00a0We had only one shovel but that was ok. \u00a0Turns out all you need is a river + sticks to make two little girls very very happy. \u00a0Who knew?<\/p>\n

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There were no waves to scare you and plenty of boats and jet skies to watch idly from the river bank. \u00a0The trees provided plenty of shade. \u00a0I could have easily hung out there all day long I think. \u00a0But there was more exploring to do so we hiked back up to the path to continue our journey. \u00a0Our next destination? \u00a0The place where the Columbia and the Willamette rivers meet. \u00a0 It was easy to find. \u00a0All we had to do was look for the giant anchor marking the spot!<\/p>\n

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You see anchor, they see climbing toy. \u00a0Leina actually wanted to take it home to our backyard! \u00a0Yeah, I don’t think so. \u00a0But she sure did love climbing it!<\/p>\n

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It was a beautiful, peaceful, fun day – a total recharge of all systems. \u00a0I’m so glad we went up to see Kat and have our adventure. \u00a0We ended at DQ with dipped cones and Blizzards. \u00a0I’m thinking we may just have to ditch the boys and do this outing again!<\/p>\n

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Over the long weekend, Josh decided to rent this giant powertool digging machine for working on his backyard. \u00a0Kevin, never one to turn down the chance to play with a very large tool thingy, was more than eager to head over and check things out. \u00a0Since neither Kat, nor I, were too excited about said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Kqhb-iN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1165"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1169,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165\/revisions\/1169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}