Leah & Daniel's Visit to Bend

Doug's sister Leah and her boyfriend Daniel came to visit us from Houston this last week. We had so much fun with them!! We spent Saturday showing them around Bend, and went out to eat at this really neat restaurant downtown called "deep". It's a really modern japanese restaurant that mostly serves sushi. Being that I am not much of a raw fish fan, I had little strips of beef that you cook on a 1000 degree rock in front of you at your table. Needless to say, it "rocked"! Here's how it works- You drop your raw meat on the rock, watch it sizzle... and then you dip it in the yummy sauces and ta-da! I'm a huge fan!
Leah and Daniel wanted to try snowboarding so we all went up to Mt. Bachelor and hit the lifts. Doug and I finally ventured away from the mini hill and went on a real run. It was really challenging but also a lot of fun.
We also went Ice Skating- I hadn't been in sooooo long, but it was such a blast! There is a resort on the way to Mt. Bachelor that has an outdoor rink you can skate at from November until March, and we decided we'd give it a shot, and Im so glad!



Here's a video I took on the ice skating rink



It was so fun to have them stay with us! I hope we can see them again this September in Austin, TX at ACL Fest, which I am still trying to convince Doug that we need to go to!! I wish they lived closer so we could do fun things like this more often with them, but I am definitely thankful for them fun times we are able to have when we do get together!