As promised earlier, here are a few pictures from our first anniversary weekend. I'm sorry for the poor quality of the pictures. We remembered our camera, but forgot our battery charger. It's a total rookie mistake and I can't believe we did that. I know my father will shake his head in disgust when he reads this.

Oh well. Our photo recording may not have been ideal, but we sure had a fun time. Friday, we went to Enchanted Forest, a small, family-run fairy-tale-themed amusement park. Mike had me pose like I was being eaten by the witch.

From there, we drove along the Umpqua River to the Oregon Coast. It was a beautiful drive. Mike had arranged for us to stay in a suite at a beautiful hotel called the Mill Casino. (We ignored the casino part.) Because of a snafu with scheduling our room, we got the suite for about half off!

Saturday, we went to a walking safari. If you'll remember from last year on our honeymoon, we got to pet a baby lion in New Zealand. I like the symmetry, because this year we got to pet both a leopard cub and a tiger cub.

As usual, Mike found a 100 things every day to make me laugh. This was on Saturday, as we drove up the coast. We bought a kite to fly on the beach but then the wind died down, so I think the best we got was about 15 feet in the air for 20 or so seconds.

We had originally planned to stay until Monday, July 4. On Sunday, I wasn't feeling well, so we ended up driving home on Sunday, instead. We drove up the spectacular Oregon coast. Trust me, the picture doesn't even begin to do it justice!

We even stopped along the way to feed the squirrels. There's a place where the squirrels are so tame they come up and eat right out of your hand. Or lap. They're cute, but they've definitely been overfed. I wish I could remember the name of the place. I may be able to find it if I Google "squirrel obesity," which reached epidemic proportions at this park. We put a piece of a pretzel on Mike's leg and the fattest squirrel I've ever seen in my life waddled up and stuffed its face within 15 seconds. One squirrel had its cheeks so full of crackers and pretzels that they were falling out faster than he could put them back in. We snatched this photo of someone else feeding the squirrel. Kind of reminds me of a dog I've seen somewhere...