recap: four week vacation

Your employer has given you four weeks to do whatever you want - outside of work - and you have to take all four weeks at once. So what would you do and where would you go? 

See some gorgeous new places...

make some new friends...

and find some new favorite places...

What a great vacation it was. Two weeks on the west coast, including a beautiful wedding of two of our friends (complete with dolphins in the background - for real), followed by two weeks at home doing everything I don't normally have time to do (like go to the gym). I have a newfound love for kale (thank you, Lovely's Fifty-Fifty of Portland), determined that I need real help when it comes to packing for a vacation (we had to mail ourselves packages - twice - because we didn't have enough room in our suitcases), and decided that I would 100% love to have a job where I could bring Sprout to work with me every day (someday?).

Sidenote: I also added two states to my 50 before 50 list!

quick stop in Portland

After a few days in Seattle, we headed South to Portland, where we were greeted at check in with wine. Yes, please.

We took a trip back out of the city while we still had a rental car and checked out Multnomah Falls, which is so gorgeous in person.

Back in the city we saw a bunch of people lined up for a doughnut shop, so we figured we should be too. T ate two of these bad boys.

We found a street fair downtown, where vendors had everything from dog raincoats to wooden bowls.

I found these fun leaf-shaped copper earrings. I like supporting local artists, and these were too pretty to pass up.

The Oregon Ducks store was a playground of green and gold.

Then off to the Japanese Tea Garden...