Nate Nate

We'll have a better post with pictures up next week, hopefully, but I wanted to throw something on here before we leave for Chicago tomorrow. Nate was in town Friday to Monday, which was fantastic. It was one of the walkingest weekends of my life, but really good times. Days were made of good food in large quantities, breakfast out every day, a blazers game, saturday market, arcade, billiards, donuts, videogames, and still more walking around. We made it through pretty much everywhere downtown, most of Hawthorne, and a little bit of Mississippi/Alberta. Weather held out well around 55 with infrequent rain.

This was kind of our first run through of hosting someone besides parents, which lent an interesting perspective. I think both of us are feeling pretty comfortable these days in getting around town under the scrutiny of a third party, finding good eats, and filling time with fun stuff. Nate seemed pretty approving of our new apartment and Portland in general. Food carts are a big winner in getting people on board, at least among our friends. You can get a ton of great and varied foods for super cheap.

Anyway, good times were had. We didn't do amazing, but we will have some pictures up later, which is a positive step. Anyone who wants to come out here, we now have space and are happy to show you around.

No no I never go to work

Basically sums it up.

Multnomah Falls

With Melody in for the week, we made the trip out to Multnomah Falls along the Columbia River and I-84. It may be next to impossible to see, but we're over on the right there. I think we're smiling. We're definitely getting wet.

Near the falls is the Vista House. A fancy little overlook of the river valley and mountains. It was also crazy windy. To the point of chasing down hats and holding on to Tammy so she didn't fly away.

It's feeling more and more like spring. Getting out more, biking more, baking stuff. Guess the last part has nothing to do with spring, but I am happy about it.

Tammy's fancy new hair

Some days you just got to walk in and ask them to take off all your hair. She was kind of freaked out at first with how drastic it was, but she's coming around.

Back to business

Hello hello!

Welcome back everyone. I tried to wait it out with the fox post, just hoping someone would take care of that for me, but no luck. I am still without pet fox. Onto the news!

We have been up to some things since my last post and we will be up to many more as March looks to be a busy old month. I am finally back into soccer, with much rejoicing. Seems to be a good group of people more or less my own age, which has been something of a rarity. It'll be much more competitive than last year playing against quite a few college players, which I'm looking forward to. Season starts in April and we've gotten together for a few games already as a kind of warm up. All good things that will require a great deal of wheezing until I get back up to speed.

Last weekend we made our first trip out to the coast. We went out to Seaside, which is less than 2 hours from here. We walked the beach, ate pancakes and hung out with some seals. Everything you could want from a beach. Weather was sunny, a bit above 50*, and did it ever feel good. We are missing the sun pretty badly. Tammy went in to the doctor recently to find out why she's been tired, and it is most likely due to a Vitamin D deficiency from lack of sun. Pretty much everyone out here takes D supplements. We need sun. We stopped in at a little aquarium near the beach where you got to feed the seals, and these seals were pro. Each one had its own move it had perfected to attract potential feeders. One would rapidly slap a flipper on its belly, one would lay upside down on a rock and catch things in his mouth, one would open and close its mouth real wide like a mini golf obstacle...they were ridiculous. We did get a little sad when we found out that pretty much everyone out at the beach had at least one dog. Some people had as many as five. Just didn't seem fair.

The other major event is that we made our first ever pie. It was a chocolate peanut butter pie and life was great. Pie in the house means you are living the dream.

So those are the major points of the last couple weeks. This week we have Melody in, and I'll have a post about our trip to Multnomah Falls with pictures on Wednesday, on Friday we'll have Nate, and the following weekend we'll be heading back to Chicago. Hopefully this hectic end to March will just make the month fly along and we'll be in spring before you know it. I want to see the sun.

Winter needs a swift kick in the pants if you ask me.