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Family Visit

This month Rob and I had the wonderful priviledge of hosting some of my family members for a visit: mom, dad, Jeff and Christie!! I kept asking before they even made their plans why on earth would they ever want to come in May - for god sakes it rains the whole month of May in Oregon. Still, they went ahead and booked it and wouldn't you know: in some freak twist of fate it was sunny the entire time! Let's stop and contemplate this for a minute. They were here for a whole week in May and IT DIDN'T RAIN ONCE. Hallelujah! Praise (Buddy) Jesus! We had originally planned that if we had just one sunny day, we would take the fam up to Mt St Helens, but we ended up being able to spend every day outside. I want to reiterate to my family (who now LOVE Oregon and want to move here - you know you do...) that it is not normally this nice in May. IT RAINS. Anyway, what they experienced is more like the amazing summers out here, but I won't elaborate on that at the risk of making it seem too nice here and convincing too many other people to move here, hence crowding out the Oregonians(kind of like you Massholes who move up to New Hampshire - you know who you are. I'll admit, I'm one of them).

Anyway since we had such glorious weather, we tried to give everyone a taste of the best of Oregon: a ride through the wonderful town we call home, a hike up Multnomah Falls, the Evergreen Air & Space Museaum, the Saturday Market, skiing @ Mt Hood, superstar seats @ the Roller Derby All-Star game, Mt St Helens, wine tasting in the Willamette Valley (for mother's day - love you mom!!), the fish ladder @ the Bonneville Dam and a walk through both of the mythical gardens (after talking up the Japanese and Chinese gardens for a whole week, we ended up finally going on the last day - they DO exist!).

Rob and I were also enthralled to find out that our dog Sheena will now stay in her crate without destroying everything inside it - thanks to Rob's genius creation we like to call "The Peanut Butter Solution" (in which he coats the inside of her hollowed-out bone with a small amount of peanut butter - not to be confused with the 1985 movie). It keeps her busy for hours and she no longer needs day care when we need to go out for just a few hours. We also found out that she loves my mom - she hearded her to the inside of the path all the way up to the top of Multnomah Falls (well, almost the top, the last section of path was washed out - go figure) and slept in her lap the whole way to and from the Bonneville Dam.

It was so great to see everyone and to be able to take advantage of the nice weather. Now we just have to get Joe and Kristen out here! Take a look at the family vacation pictures on my Flickr page.