It's official. This bites the dust on Oct. 31st, 2008.
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Moving to Blogger
Well, AOL has decided to "sunset" Journals, Pictures, and other things. Rather than wait for it to break, I'm moving to Blogger. Find the current journal here. Having previously worked for AOL, I am disappointed they are shutting these down as I know there are millions of people who use them. They just couldn't figure out how to "monetize" them. Maybe if they listened to their Engineers' ideas.....?
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Visiting Pashyo, Cyrena and Alec in Chehalis, WA
In early December, 2007, we went to visit Rasila's Mom, her sister Cyrena, and her nephew Alec in Chehalis, WA. We flew toPortland Airport, then rented a car and drove the short trip to Chehalis. I decided I really liked PDX, because we arrived, used the restroom, picked up our bags, got our car, and were driving in 20 minutes!
Chehalis had just had massive flooding and I-5 was still closed when we arrived. We had to exit one exit early, but we had Rasila's GPS to guide us. We arrived about 8:30 PM or so and had a small dinner with Pashyo, then met Lori, Pashyo's friend, who used to run a bed and breakfast, and stayed in one of the old bedrooms available for the B&B.
Lori graciously fixed breakfast for us in the morning and Rasila and I took Pashyo's dog Kami for a walk. He is having a great time living on a farm where he can really run around. We then met Cyrena at the house she was living in and we all went to Northwest Trek in Eatonville, WA for the day. It was really a neat place. It was a ranch that collected wildlife and when the owners decided to retire, they turned it into a non-profit wildlife park. There is lots of Bison, Elk, Big Horn Sheep, Mountain Goats, and smaller animals. They also have Coyote and Wolf areas separate from the prey animals. It was well worth the trip.
The next morning we met Rasila's dad for breakfast, then drove back to Portland for the trip home.
Short but sweet!
Chehalis had just had massive flooding and I-5 was still closed when we arrived. We had to exit one exit early, but we had Rasila's GPS to guide us. We arrived about 8:30 PM or so and had a small dinner with Pashyo, then met Lori, Pashyo's friend, who used to run a bed and breakfast, and stayed in one of the old bedrooms available for the B&B.
Lori graciously fixed breakfast for us in the morning and Rasila and I took Pashyo's dog Kami for a walk. He is having a great time living on a farm where he can really run around. We then met Cyrena at the house she was living in and we all went to Northwest Trek in Eatonville, WA for the day. It was really a neat place. It was a ranch that collected wildlife and when the owners decided to retire, they turned it into a non-profit wildlife park. There is lots of Bison, Elk, Big Horn Sheep, Mountain Goats, and smaller animals. They also have Coyote and Wolf areas separate from the prey animals. It was well worth the trip.
The next morning we met Rasila's dad for breakfast, then drove back to Portland for the trip home.
Short but sweet!
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Trying to make Outlook actually work
I'm trying to use Xobni. I need 2 reference to get priority. Hope this works!
Sunday, December 2, 2007
Homecoming in October
In October, we visited Laramie for the annual trek to Wyoming's Homecoming game. Wyoming lost to New Mexico, but we got to experience the first ever lightning delay in Wyoming football history (114 years) and stayed home Saturday night due to freezing rain, and woke up to snow!
Thursday, November 8, 2007
Pictures from Trip to Spain Part 1
The flash version of the pictures kept coming up and not displaying correctly, so I had to remove the pictures. Here they are. I think they have it fixed!
Saturday, October 27, 2007
Trip to Spain, Part 3: Madrid again
On Friday, we were heading back to Madrid, so Roger and I got up and walked to
the supermercado to buy some breakfast, but it didn’t open until 9, so we found
a café for some café con leche which we waited. We bought a nice selection of fruit, juice, croissants, meat and cheese
for 11 euros which ended up feeding us all nicely. We then packed and took a cab to the train
station for our 12:25 train. We were a
bit early, so we had time for more café con leche at the train station. As we lined up for security, they announced
the train was cancelled, so Roger and I got in line to get tickets for the next
train, which was at 13:25. Rasila said
she heard it was cancelled due to a strike, but I suspect the train was just
not populated enough to run it. So we
read for an hour while we waited. After
arriving back in Madrid,
we looked into the old station, which has a tropical garden in it. We took the Metro back to the Gran Via, where
we were staying in the same hotel. Our
rooms didn’t have a view, but there were as nice as the previous ones. We went to the Prado art museum that
afternoon, where they have a very impressive collection of Velazquez, Greco,
and Goya, among numerous others. We were
meeting Mark and Sabrina at 7 at the hotel, and we all went up the rooftop bar
for a pre-dinner drink. It had an
impressive view of the city and a tower that you could walk up that put you at
12 stories up that I got some good pictures from.
We were eating at a Basque restaurant that night and had an 8:30 reservation. When we arrived, we were the only ones there. When we left at 11:00, the restaurant was full with most people just eating their appetizers! I had an unusual dish of baby squid in a salsa tinta, which I found out was a sauce made with the ink. t was very good.
Saturday, we woke at 9:15 (finally getting into the Spanish lifestyle!), had breakfast, and met Mark and Sabrina at 11:00. We were going to go through Retiro Park, but it was raining, so we went to the Thyssen Museum instead. It has a collection of minor works by major artists as well as the only collection of American art in Spain. Rasila enjoyed it as it had works by Monet, Rodin, and others from the impressionist era, which she really likes.
We were doing a tapas crawl that night, so we decided a siesta was in order, so after lunch at an Indian restaurant in the Lavapies district, we took a nap. We were starting our crawl at 7:00 PM, where we hit 7 different places, including the place Hemingway did eat, before crowning off the evening with the San Gines Chocolateria. The hot chocolate is famous and is served in 2 spots, both walking distance from our hotel. The chocolate is thick enough to float your spoon, and you dip churros in it. It was worth the wait, as Rasila had been hearing about it all week! We were finished at midnight, since we had to travel the next day.
Sunday was our travel day home, so we got up at 7:00, ate breakfast, and was on the Metro by 8:00. Roger and Julia’s flight was at 11, ours at noon. We had time to spend our leftover Euros at the duty free shop and flew back with only a minor delay in Chicago due to thunderstorms. The long connection paid off as our bags made an earlier flight and we just picked them up and took a taxi home! All in all, it was 24 hours from getting up to going to sleep at 10 PM.
We were eating at a Basque restaurant that night and had an 8:30 reservation. When we arrived, we were the only ones there. When we left at 11:00, the restaurant was full with most people just eating their appetizers! I had an unusual dish of baby squid in a salsa tinta, which I found out was a sauce made with the ink. t was very good.
Saturday, we woke at 9:15 (finally getting into the Spanish lifestyle!), had breakfast, and met Mark and Sabrina at 11:00. We were going to go through Retiro Park, but it was raining, so we went to the Thyssen Museum instead. It has a collection of minor works by major artists as well as the only collection of American art in Spain. Rasila enjoyed it as it had works by Monet, Rodin, and others from the impressionist era, which she really likes.
We were doing a tapas crawl that night, so we decided a siesta was in order, so after lunch at an Indian restaurant in the Lavapies district, we took a nap. We were starting our crawl at 7:00 PM, where we hit 7 different places, including the place Hemingway did eat, before crowning off the evening with the San Gines Chocolateria. The hot chocolate is famous and is served in 2 spots, both walking distance from our hotel. The chocolate is thick enough to float your spoon, and you dip churros in it. It was worth the wait, as Rasila had been hearing about it all week! We were finished at midnight, since we had to travel the next day.
Sunday was our travel day home, so we got up at 7:00, ate breakfast, and was on the Metro by 8:00. Roger and Julia’s flight was at 11, ours at noon. We had time to spend our leftover Euros at the duty free shop and flew back with only a minor delay in Chicago due to thunderstorms. The long connection paid off as our bags made an earlier flight and we just picked them up and took a taxi home! All in all, it was 24 hours from getting up to going to sleep at 10 PM.
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