visitors take 4

our great friends from college (even high school for blake), beau and danielle, just came for visit and we had such a blast with them. if we could only convince beau to move here we'd be set-danielle keep working on him! it rained the entire time they were here, but we all made the best of it.
since i've become a local tour guide for the greater portland area i won't bother to post about all things we did and i'll just take point on the highlights.

kayaking on the willamette river in the cold rain and wind. have i mentioned how much i love kayaking? not! seriously, we were so close to talking the boys out of going, but they won and i lost big time! not only was i wet from the rain, but i fell on the dock right before taking off and i got TOTALLY soaked! even though the weather was nasty i must admit it was beautiful looking at the fall colors on our 5.5 mile journey (that's right, we were troopers in the cold).


we went on a ghost hunt in haunted areas of portland with a tour and it was so fun to see people freak out at silly nothings. i got my palm read and was told all about myself and it scared me big time only to find out later in the evening that the tour director had gathered information about me online and that is how he had all of his information. either way it made for entertaining evening of stories and ghost hunting.

(this hotel is rated as one of the top most haunted places in the US and rooms can still be rented for only $25.00/night...Amy-are you interested? LOL)

oh, and not to be forgotten we went to a drag queen show at the recommendation of my grammy. all i can say is wow. maybe i should go ask some of them for makeup tips?

(That Ain't No Lady!)

i almost forgot....we went to the zoo for the first time and it was only $2.00! what a great deal! we didn't know that before we went, but i guess they do $2.00 tuesdays. best $2.00 i've spent in a long time!

($2.00 folks! $2.00!)

i'm drawing a blank on everything else, but i know we ate a lot of great food and just had fun hanging out in portland.