Tuesday Photo Challenge – Family Visit Travel
Tuesday Photo Challenge this week is the theme Travel, “Travel does not require it to be far or exotic, but simply any trip to where you do not live.” Frank said.
We have three kinds of travel – sightseeing, relaxing, and visiting family.
Our last trip was for family visit. My husband I spent Mother’s Day weekend with Mercy and Will in Portland, Oregon. We went to The Salty’s for a seafood buffet brunch on Saturday instead of Sunday. We were told that there were 1,800 guests on Sunday. It was such a delight to have window seating; watching the soothing water while eating. The food was delicious and abundant. Each of us made at least three trips to get different kind of food!
After brunch, we went to Kelley Point Park and enjoyed our walk in this fresh green park full of sky tall trees. At one corner of the park, we found an old dock with an abandoned anchor. From the dock, we watched the after rain dramatic clusters of clouds, the lightly lit sky and the somewhat calm river with distant docks and boats.
On Sunday afternoon we went to St. John City Street Fair. Many roads were blocked off of traffic. Vendors from all kind of businesses had their displays in booths, selling their products. Kids were free running around. There were laughers everywhere. All four of us took turn to spin the hula hoop. It was such a relaxing, interesting and enjoying time for families and people in the community.
On our way home, I spotted a nice landscape from the neighborhood. I couldn’t resist taking a photo!
Frank at Dutch Goes The Photo: Tuesday Photo Challenge – Travel
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Love hula hoops! Seems you had a great time! Thanks for sharing! 🙂
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Thank you, yes, we had a good time. Thank you for reading!
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Nice photos – love the one of you and your family. Beautiful. 🙂
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Thank you, Judith! We had a good time!
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Thank you, Frank!
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A wonderful visit and lovely pictures!
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Thank you, Frank!
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Ahhhh what a beautiful family trip! I love this. Now, this is what life is about!
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Yes, family time is so heart warming!
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Lovely photos! 😍 Looks like you and your daughter had a fantastic Mother’s Day! 🙂
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Yes, we did! After the fun, my hubby helped Will to work on a project, Mercy and I had time to talk! That was precious!
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Aww, that’s wonderful! 🙂
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I love to have quiet talk with my daughter!
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😀 ♥
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🙂 🙂
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Oh, Miriam, this is beautiful!!! Thank you so much for sharing. Love the colors of those flowers.
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Yes, nice landscape in the neighborhood.
I linked to your blog just now!!
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Yes, sometimes even a trip around our home city can be discovery!
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That’s right!
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The weather was so perfect wow, my dear what food was that you were eating it looks so very delightful 😊
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I had shrimps, crab, over-easy egg and ham on English muffin, croissant, beacon, and a puffy roll! That was my first plate. I went back for second and third!!
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Sounds like you all had a wonderful time visiting and sightseeing. 😀
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Yes, we did. We also went with them to a couple parties. We had fun talking to their friends’ parents!
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Lovely pictures!
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Thank you so much!
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It looks like you had a wonderful time with your family and the food looks delicious too! :o) xxx
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Yes, Xenia. We had a wonderful time. Other than doing running around, we stayed home and my husband helped Will on some electrical project, and Mercy and I could relax and talk! That was precious!
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☺💖 xxx
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🙂 🙂
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Such great pictures to compliment your wonderful family time.
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Thank you, Tina! How have you been doing!
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You are welcome. I haven’t been doing so good. I will have one surgery on Monday and I go to the dr tomorrow to see if I will have another one and when, or if they can do it all at the same time. I am really stressed out right now. How are you doing?
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What surgery do you have?
I’m doing fine, nerve pain on both feet – balls and heels. Will see a neurologist, had seen a podiatrist. Can’t walk more than 30 minutes! I usually sit on the couch with my feet elevated.
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I have to have another cystoscopy with hydrodistention, like I had in April and one of my interstims failed so I may have to have it replaced unless the Medtronic rep can revive it in the office.
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Do you need them to urinate?
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I need them to help me stop urinating so often. I go up to 25 times a day. I get so exhausted and need sleep all the time because I’m up all the time urinating. It is a bad disease.
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Do you take potassium supplement? you’d lose it from the urine!
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No, it is actually one of the supplements that will cause pain with this disease. B12 vitamins and cranberries are very painful too. I do eat a banana once in a while, but it causes bladder pain so not very often do I eat one.
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It sounds complicated! I wonder if you could work with a nutritionist to find things you can eat to maintain your health while you’re being treated with your disease! I’m having high blood pressure again. I know I’m not taking enough potassium and calcium which regulate the blood pressure. So I’m adjusting my diet.
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I am on a diabetic diet and an IC diet, so I’m very restricted on what I can eat. But I don’t lose any weight, or feel good, ever, so I might need some supplements. I will see my dr again soon where I can ask him about them.
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Yes, get a lot of choices, try one at a time and see which one works!
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That sounds like a good idea. Thank you!
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Wish the best to you!
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Very beautiful photos and interesting article! 🙂
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Thank you so much. I tried to show what we did with brief writing!
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I love the look of that seafood buffet. 1800 diners is quite something. I remember playing with a hula hoop as a child. Great for the waistline. Glad you had such a wonderful time. 😊
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I took photos of the buffet set up, but didn’t want to post too many photos in one post. I limit myself from 4 to 10. I didn’t do too well with hula hoop, because of leck practice. My daughter did very well with 21 weeks of pregnancy!!
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Beautiful! I’m so glad you got to visit your daughter and celebrate Mother’s Day…looks like a wonderful time! And all those amazing and relaxing views! Love the landscape photo you included too. 🙂
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Beautiful photos
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Thank you very much!
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Looks like you had amazing trip. Nice photos. The green photos and flowery one refreshing and soothing. Thanks for sharing.
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Yes, we had a good family time. Thank you so much for your comment!
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