Sunday, December 20, 2009

Creesmas Ships

It twas so festive to be with Rick, Nea, Brooke and Joe and jaunt across the Sellwood Bridge to our old stomping grounds, for a Friday night evening of Christmas Ships.

We bundled up, and joined dozens of people, some with a bonfire on the beach along the river, others sat near us on the dock.

It was finally a clear non-rainy night after a week of rainy and chilly.

There must have been twenty plus boats, with all sorts of lights: from swimming dolphins, to a firetruck complete with sirens, to little tug boats with pirate santa lights. Oohh it was wonderful. The following is my favorite: a whale with a spout that had moving lights.

3 comments:

Linnea said...

This is from brooke but i feel bad signing Nea out on her own computer:

i love your quote from madeliene. oh yes.

And the whale was MY favorite TOO!! the same thought is in my mind...hee hee!

glorious marvelous
dazzling
oh yes

Jodi Girden said...

is that a baby whale glowing behind? it looked a bit like a dolphin in the first picture, so i couldn't tell. fun to hear your pre-shift voice last night, and that you are getting to do fun christmas things in between all that!

Linnea said...

I especially loved looking down the river at the boats all in a row; like a little parade; all aglow and jaunty; happy that they brought us smiles and pleasure!

'twas such fun adventure together!

to be alive is to be vulnerable.... oh good food for the soul to ponder