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Wednesday, March 29, 2006

Okay, this is my first entry. I hope its all you've been waiting for. Not much to say, but i have a few pictures i thought you might like to see.


This is Brian's dog Lily in the front of the photo. We try to take her and River somewhere they can swim at least once a week. We have three or four places that we like to go to, and this one is one of the favorites, Guadalupe State Park.


The water temperature right now is about 60 degrees, so its a little cold. River couldn't care less, to her it almost seems warm. Lily doesn't quite have the insulation that River does, so she usually lets River fetch the ball.

After Brian and I braved the chilly water, we set up the grill and got ready to cook some dinner. Brian is a professional hamburger cooker, and he brought all the secret ingredients.

It may look like Brian is seriously burning the hamburger patties right here, but he knows what he is doing (at least i hoped). We stayed till about 9 pm, and we all, including the dogs, enjoyed the hamburgers. I hope you enjoyed this, and i will keep putting up new pictures of us for you to see. bye, Carl.

Thursday, March 23, 2006

Our second day in Portland we went to the beach, or the Coast as they say in Oregon. The coast there is absolutely beautiful. We tried to make it out early so we could catch low tide and be able to see the starfish and sea anemones on the rocks, but we didn't make it in time. It was still beautiful though. Carl loves anything and everything to do with marine life, so he had a blast.

We took one detour on our way to get a glimpse of the largest Sitka Spruce in the United States. Here's Carl standing next to it.




I don't have any pictures ot if, but we finished off our day at the Tillamook Cheese Factory. Carl took an aptitude test a few months ago, and the results showed that he's destined to be a cheese maker. So I had to show him the factory. I had no idea he'd be so enthralled. We had to stay forever. I've been there many times and taken lots of people, but never anyone as interested as Carl. It was quite entertaining. What's even more funny is that we drove by the Bluebell factory the other day on the way to Anna's wedding, and Carl wanted to stop. Then we were eating some M&Ms and he mentioned that he'd love to see where they make them. I may begin to wish I had never taken him to Tillamook because I am not one for tours, and it appears that we may have to take a few some time in the future.

Sunday, March 19, 2006

Carl and I returned home today from a super long and really fun week. We left last weekend for Portland, Oregon, returned on Friday, and left again on Saturday for his friend's wedding in College Station. We did a lot in the last couple of days. I'll spread out all the pictures over the next couple of days to drag it out a little longer.
The one thing we did the most of was driving. Here we are in the car on the way to Multnomah Falls, a really beautiful natural waterfall about 25 miles outside of Portland.

And here we are with my sister Kennedy. We had such a good time with my family. We got to pick up Kennedy from day care one afternoon, and I had a lot of fun doing it. Carl thought she would be scared of us and possibly cry, but she loved it too. We put on her favorite CD and sang songs on the way home.

Here's Carl at one of the falls that's on the way to the big one. Its called Latourrell Falls, and its my favorite. I like it because only a fraction of the people that go to Multnomah Falls go there, so you can hike up and feel totally secluded from the world. Carl's not much of a hiker, so we opted to just enjoy the beautiful scenery from the bottom. But its definitely worth the hike if anyone ever gets out there.

This is a picture of the Hotel St Martin in Carson, Washington (I think that's the name of the town). Susan and I drove out there on Saturday to enjoy the mineral bath. I've never done that before, so I wasn't quite sure what to expect, but I definitely imagined something totally different. It was very outdated, but cool at the same time. We each had our own bath filled with hot spring mineral water. We soaked for about twenty minutes.

Then we got out, lied down on the cots seen below, and were wrapped in a thick blanket. When I heard we were going to be a wrap, I imagined seaweed, mud, or something of the sorts, but it was just what you see here- a blanket on a cot. It was relaxing though, and the scenery was gorgeous. Susan and I laughed as we left because we felt that the place left much to be desired, but my mother on the other hand, had she been there, would have thought it was the greatest place. She does think so, actually, from the pictures and description we gave her.