wedding road trip

Day 2: Beware the One-Eyed Snake

In our short fifteen-hour visit to Elmira, Oregon, we managed to roll into Our Daily Bread Restaurant twice. First in the evening for an amazing chicken dinner with the strongest apple martini I’ve ever had and then in the morning for an organic egg breakfast, complete with potatoes and local coffee. Apparently, my Uncle Julian and Aunt Linda eat there several times a week and have become BFFs with one of the waiters, Marshall. I can see why they like this restaurant, as it’s set in an old church and has stain glass windows throughout. In the evenings, a man plays the piano as people sip wine and talk about the good old days.

Of course, that’s not what we talked about. Conversations with my Uncle Julian and Aunt Linda have been known to include topics like vice grips, prison reform, Brass Foo dogs, horse breeding, and Victorian sex habits.

Yes, Victorian sex habits. Somehow our discussion about marriage digressed into a most interesting conversation about upper class women who were brought up to believe that sex was unnatural and shocking. In fact, it appears that back then, there was no sex education, which means that most women were…um… rather surprised when they woke up to meet the one-eyed-snake on their wedding night. Lower class women, on the other hand, were hot to trot and were often the ones who serviced the upper class men while their wives hid in the broom closets. As my uncle put it, women were told to “close their eyes, spread their thighs, and think of England.”

Right then.

Here’s a picture of us all standing in front of, you guessed it, Our Daily Bread.

I’m not sure what Chris is looking at or what I’m laughing at, but I am sure it was something my Uncle Julian said. He has one of the best senses of humor I’ve ever experienced. I can’t wait to go back and visit again.

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