Sharna's Daddy was taking her fishing....

For Sharna's birthday Eric surprised her with a trip to their friends cabin on Lake Siltcoos on the Oregon coast between Reedsport and Florence. The cabin is situated such that one can only get to it by boat. Sharna and Eric traveled down on Friday night and invited Gene and I to join them on Saturday. It was a very nice, low key weekend.

We fished a little, with Gene catching the only fish. The fish was what the consummate fisherman Victor calls a hog (the bait was almost as big as the fish).

After fishing for a while Sharna and I tooled around the lake the in little boat and Eric prepared a nice dinner. I had brought along a cheesecake I had baked for her birthday. I need to perfect my cheesecake baking skills, as I was not impressed with the result.

Later that night we watched a little racoon venturing around to see if we would break the house rules and throw it some food. No comment.

We hiked a bit the next day. I wanted to hike to a secluded beach that is supposed to be littered with sand dollars, but it involved wading across a river which we had not prepared to do, so we will have to hit that hike another time.

Happy 29th birthday Sharshee! (and good job Eric).