Weekend With The Coles

Jennifer's parents flew in this weekend to see us in our new home. We picked them up at PDX on Saturday and took them back to our apartment to show them our new place. Then we headed out to a car show in the area.

Then after some fun with the bus system and some broken down buses, we made it back to our place. By then it was getting late. Especially for the Coles who were still on CST. We took them back to there hotel and grab some dinner at the Black Bear Diner. It's a great place to eat, and also right next to the closest hotel.

Sunday morning I could not seem to get up. So, Jennifer went with her parents to Portland First Church Of The Nazarene. One of Jennifer's mom friends is the pastor's wife here. We thought it would nice to go there because of the connection. But the pastor is in the middle of a three mont sabbatical that ends in a few weeks. Jennifer said that the service was nice and that even with the pastor and his wife gone the Nazarene web still holds strong. They met a few people that they knew anyway.

Then they came home and changed and picked me up and we headed down the the Oregon Zoo. We had a great time and some some great animals. We actually saw some that we didn't see the last time we went because it was a lot cooler and cloudy so more of them were out in the open.

After that we came back to Beaverton with the hopes of going out to Borders. But the bus that goes out there doesn't run after 7 or so. So, we just walked down to Burgerville for some dinner. I have to say I was impressed by the quality of food. I don't think I've ever actually ate at one before, but I really liked it. I even ate a Walla Walla Sweet Onion Ring for my dad. It was really good.

Well, that's all the adventures for so far. I'll update again in the next few days as things happen.

Some Pictures from a Weekend with the Coles

Steve at the car show

Cheryl at the car show

Can I have me treat from Sampson yet?

Are bald eagles really bald?

The Cole Exhibit at the zoo

Here grizzly, grizzly...

Here's to Walla Walla

So, Long Time, No Update

Well, it's been awhile since I last updated you all. So, I thought I'd say a few words. Work is going good. My schedule is now Monday to Friday 6:30-1 or 2. I like this because it gives me the weekends off. The main reason I have this schedule now is that I can't get to work until at least 7 on Saturdays and they didn't like that very much. So, we switched it up. Also this will give me the weekends to spend with Jennifer, seeing as those are her days off too. She is supposed to start work sometime this next week, but has to wait for the paper work to be done, so probably not till Tuesday or Wednesday.

Jennifer and I tried to make it in to get our Oregon Driver's License on Friday, but we didn't have the right papers to show our residency here so we will try to make it back in tomorrow after I get off work, if Jennifer doesn't work. We'll have to wait and see.

Then the big news that everyone is talking about is that Harry Potter 7 came out. I wanted to go out to the midnight release, but there was no way we would have made it back home, so we made the trip out to Border's Saturday morning to pick it up. I haven't read that much yet. Unfortunately I have to sleep sometimes. If I had been able to get it Friday night I would have stayed up reading it, but I can't do that now. Maybe tonight, but we'll have to see about that.

This morning Jennifer and I got up and went to church for the first time while here in Portland. We took a short bus ride over to St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church here in Beaverton. We neither one really felt at home in this church though and are not too sure if we will go back. But oh well. We knew it wouldn't be easy to find a new church. We have several more that we'll try though. We'll keep you updated on the church search.

I think that's it for now.

Well, if you've been reading Jennifer's blog, you know that tonight we went to the Portland Beavers game against the Tacoma Rainiers. We cheered for the home team as you might expect, but unfortunately the Beavers lost 8-3. We did have a great time at the game though and are looking forward to many more outings to PGE Park in the near future. In case you don't know the Beavers are a Triple-A farm team for the San Diego Padres. The park was really nice. The seats need more leg room, but what's new about that. I'm sorry, we didn't bring our camera, so no pictures for now. Maybe the next time we go.

Well, I think that's it for now. I'm still not feeling too great. This cold seems to be sticking around rather than getting better.

First week of work...

Well, this was my first week of working again. But, it has also brought on a bad case of sickness. I woke up Friday morning not feeling good, but thinking it would go away. Well, it didn't. It only got worse. My sinus' were draining like crazy and I was starting to not feel good at all by the time I headed home. I'm still not sure how I made it home that day without collapsing, but I did. I wasn't on my feet for more than a few minutes though once I got home. Jennifer had some Sudafed left over and so I took some of that I started to feel a little better. I went back and forth between sleeping and being awake for most of that night. I have to say that Jennifer took pretty good care of me. But all through out the night I was going from burning hot to feeling cold, while still being extremely hot to the touch.

Needless to say by the time work came around I was not feeling very alive. So, I waited until the others got to work and regretfully called in sick. I hated doing this, but I didn't feel I had much choice. I didn't think they'd want me to get everyone else sick and I doubted that they would want a zombie wondering around their store.

Aside from that this week has gone really well. I think I've shown them my worth by being able to do so many things that not everyone can do. It feels good to have new people complement me. I must say that I like this new store. True it is about twice as big as my old one. But it's a really nice place and the people are nice too. I wasn't too sure about meeting all the new people, but they actually remind me of the people at the other store. It's strange how that works.

Well, I think that's all for now. Hopefully I'm feeling better by Tuesday.

Some more pictures.

The kitchen
Another view of the kitchen
The office/spare room
The living room
The dining room/bedroom for first couple nights
Bedroom
Another view of bedroom
Master closet

Master Bath

Master bath again
Patio and view off patioBuddha showing off the fireplace
The office post move in
Dining room again
Bedroom


p.s. I have no idea how we have this much stuff. We'll try to get pictures up as we get things set up.

Well, we are finally here. I am still exhausted. It feels good to be out here though. I'm just feeling my age and being out of shape doesn't help. The move has gone pretty smoothly. Nothing really big has happened. The details are on Jennifer's page if you want to know them. The drive was a long and hard trip for all of us. I would like to once again thank my mom for being willing to drive that massive truck. I realized towards the end of the trip that I probably could have driven it myself. But I'm very thankful that my mom was able and willing to do this.

One nice thing about moving this direction is you gain two hours as you drive. That really helped us out on some of those days. It was nice to get an extra hour of sleep on some of those nights.

As Jennifer said in her blog, I did get a job. It was very welcome news and made the last leg a little easier. There is a problem though. I'll be working in the same type of position that I was in at my old store, but they come in at 5:30am. This brings up a big problem for me. The earliest the bus can get me there is 6:13am. So, I'll have to talk to them when I go in next week and make sure this is OK. I think they'll be OK with it, but you never know. The store is huge. It's a two story monster of a store. It's pretty much twice the size of my old store. It was also interesting as we pulled up to it and saw the area that it is in. I wish we took some pictures, but we weren't thinking about that at the time. It's in a shopping center called Bridgeport Village. It is a very nice and fancy little shopping area. If you go to the link you can take a look at all the shops it has. Jennifer has already said that she'll be spending a lot of time looking while I'm at work this summer.

Well I think thats if for now. I'll leave you with a few pictures of our trip.

The weary travelers stop to look at windsurfers on the Columbia

The behemoth is ready to roll

So is Buddha

Oh, what a view. This is what we saw for 4 days straight.

Wind farm some where in Nebraska Wyoming or Utah