Paul Anka Weekend

It's Saturday evening and I am looking out the window at the Pacific Ocean. We are sitting in our beach condo at Pacific Winds. Many moons ago, Pa got tickets for Paul Anka at the Chinook Winds Casino. We figured that since we don't take much time off from work, that we should make a weekend of it.

We left home, yesterday (Friday), at about 4:00 p.m. After getting stuck in Dundee traffice for almost 25 minutes, we zipped on down to Lincoln City, checked into our condo, and quickly drove over to meet Pa and Ashton at Chinook Winds. A short while later, Gordon and Tracy arrived. We ate at the buffet, then went to the theatre for Paul Anka.

Gretchen and I both had rather low expecations. After all, Paul Anka had to be older than dirt, and here he was, performing at Chinook Winds. Well, our expectations were greatly exceeded. Paul was very fit, energenic, and put on a great show.

For those who don't know, Paul Anka has written hundreds of songs for other well-known singers. For the older crowd, he wrote the theme song for the Johny Carson show. He sang both songs that he recorded, and many that he wrote for others. He played guitar and piano. He worked the crowd very well, and sang three encores.

After a very entertaining evening, Pa, Ashton, Gordon & Tracy came over to our condo, which was about 1.5 miles from the casino. We had some snacks, then Pa and Ash took off for home so they could attend the Grand Floral parade in the morning. Gordon and Tracy had a hotel room and were heading home, this morning.

The Mortensen clan stayed the weekend. We slept in, this morning. Gretchen and I went to the coffe shop, then picked up some eggs and milk. We came back to the condo, had breakfast, then went swimming in the indoor pool. Afterward, we went to get a crab/shrimp cocktail, shopping at the outlet mall, and stopped for a Snicker Ice Cream Mocha for the kids (I know, we are very nutritional-minded parents).

Returning to condo, we just hung out. Watched some TV, Victoria and I went hot tubbing -- overlooking the ocean, and Gretchen even entered some invoices (gotta love the Internet). Now, we are all watching the Biggest Loser and I am blogging.

We'll head to dinner, soon, and see if we can make it through another stressful day, tomorrow!