Oregon Trip

Jackie and I flew to Portland on Wednesday night to see Brian and Abby. It was a fun relaxing weekend. Wednesday night we stayed up until way late talking and catching up. It's been a long time since Jackie and I have stayed up that late. Thursday we hung out while Brian was working, Jackie and I went on a nice walk and then went with Abby to school up at the Oregon State University. We walked around campus and looked through the book store since Abby only had one class that wasn't very long.

That afternoon we went on hike to see three different waterfalls. It is amazing how green and how many trees there are in Oregon. The moss on the trees behind Abby and Jackie is really cool.

We spent Friday morning reading and relaxing. That afternoon we headed over to the park to play some frisbee golf. Brian is really good at it. Me not so much.

This picture makes me laugh, because Brian doesn't stop working, but hey at least he can basically work anywhere.

Abby was an amazing host and made some great meals. She kept us full all weekend.

This picture below probably doesn't really interest anyone, but I thought I would post it for Ryan, it is Brian and Abby's house and their new truck.

Friday night we headed to the Oregon Coast. We spent the night in Newport and this was the view from our room. The hotel experience wasn't very great. Our neighbors in the room next to us thought it would be a good time to smoke and tell jokes and be as loud as possible at 1:30 am which was very nice of them. Abby went out and asked them to go somewhere else which they responded no we won't. Fifteen minutes later as they didn't quiet down Brian went out to try, and began his sentence, "Seriously! We can hear every word........." He shuts the door and you can hear them mocking Brian with a "Seriously", anyway they stopped and we thought we were good for the night, but a little after 3 am someone decided to knock on our door very loudly which startled all of us as we had just fell asleep. Brian went out again, and there is one lady standing out there and Brian asks her, did you knock on our door and she denies it, but then I think figures out she was banging on the wrong door and she went down a few doors and banged on the doors for a while. Needless to say we had a great laugh at 3 am. Jackie and I lived on the 101 in Ventura and we enjoyed seeing the 101 signs and smelling the ocean again. We sure do miss living on the coast. Those were the days........

Jackie's wonderful attempt to take a picture of the scenery, but just as she clicked the button the red barn showed up. It is a very nice picture of a barn though. We headed up to Tillamook to eat some Tillamook Cheese. The girls had some nice grilled cheese sandwhiches and I enjoyed my pepper jack cheese chicken wrap. We went on a tour of the factory and finished the tour off with some great ice cream. I always make fun of Jackie for her high school mascot which is the Beetdiggers, but as you can see from below we found a better one, The Tillamook CheeseMakers. Nothing strikes fear into the opposing team like a piece of cheese. I really wanted to see what their mascot looked like, a block of cheese, a cheese head, or what.....

Below are their pets. Kookie was a great dog and very well trained. I was surprised at how well she was behaved. Kookie was a lot of fun. The other picture is of their cat, I don't think I even asked the cat's name because as you can see, we just called her Fat Cat and she did kind of smell funny. When we walked in the door, we both laughed because Fat Cat's head just doesn't seem to fit to her body. The Vet said that the cat has a head for a 8 lb body, but the cat weighs 24 lbs. The cat made me laugh all weekend.

We had a great time with the Roberts!!! We have such great friends!!!
We babysat Cayman the night before we left and I thought this picture was funny, she was so happy on the saddle and pretend horse and then as soon as I got out the camera she gave me a big frown.