... Our Day in Eugene ...

Several Saturday's ago (I know, I'm behind on blogging) we loaded up

and made the 2 hour drive to Eugene to spend the day with Carl, Lynnette & Tomas!!

We were SO excited to see them all and we were SO excited to go to Jimmy John's,

one of the (MANY) restaurants that we loved in Logan that is not in Grants Pass!

We met up with Tomas at his awesome bachelor pad, then met up with Carl & Lynnette

for lunch, where we had the most delicious sandwiches!! :)

After lunch, we headed over to the very large and very populated Saturday market!

We wandered around, listened to the awesome drummer's circle,

I got suckered into buying a necklace from an adorable little girl

and we chatted and caught up! The weather was perfect and we had a great time walking around!

 

Since we were downtown, we made a stop at the famous Voodoo Doughnut shop!

We had a great time giggling at all the different doughnut names and even got to see some of

those doughnuts in person (if you're looking for a good time, just go to their website and

have a look around their doughnuts ... you'll see why!! :)

 

 

We stashed our doughnuts in the back since we were all still full from our delicious

sandwiches and drove up to Skinner Butte and got a birds eye view and tour of Eugene from Tomas -
he's lived there for several years now and really seems to love it there!!

 

We also took some time and drove down to the Willamette River and walked along the bridge!
Tomas had the audacity to challenge the beautiful - ness of our bridges in Grants Pass,

but this one came pretty close - it was such a gorgeous day!!

We also walked along the trail to a little duck pond, but the ducks seemed to be missing!!

We finished up our day in Eugene with a stop at Papa's Soul Food Kitchen!!

It was an adorable little place that served up some delicious southern style bbq!!

After our bellies were full, we headed back to the bachelor pad to chat for a little while

longer and eat our super yummy and sweet doughnuts before we had to head back!

We had such a wonderful day in Eugene and it was SO great to have some family time -

we wished it were a few days longer, but we were grateful to have the time that we did!!