Marriage License Waiting Period

After LOTOJA, Rosey and I were originally planning on spending a couple of days in Grand Teton and Yellowstone park with our friends Chris and Shannon before heading out to the coast. But, we discovered just before leaving last week that Oregon requires a three day waiting period on marriage licenses. So, we had to book it out to the coast to get our marriage license waiting period started in time to finish before we were scheduled to get married on Friday.

We did still get to spend Sunday afternoon in the Tetons and we used it to do a hike to hidden falls behind Jenny lake. The hike was fun and the waterfall was beautiful but we got rained and snowed on a little bit as we took a ferry back across the lake. Because of the weather and in order to cut down on the amount of driving that we had to do on Monday we took off Sunday night and drove to Pocatello.

Monday was a day full of driving. It felt like my second endurance activity in 3 days. After spending 12 hours on the bike on Saturday, we got to spend 13 hours in the car on Monday. At least we got to start the day with some mammoth muffins from Perkins in Pocatello. And the scenery on the drive, at least once you get near Portland, was pretty spectacular.

We made it to Cannon beach in the early evening and got to walk on the beach that we'll be married on. Rosey made a good choice. It's a beautiful beach. The lady at the hotel mentioned that Cannon beach is currently rated as the #1 beach in the nation. Cool!