I was totally lame while Kathy was here and didn't take any photos to document her trip, but we had a nice and relaxing visit. We went to Sauvie Island and picked berries, browsed the Saturday Market, took Gypsy to the dog wash, made a yummy dinner at home, drove to the coast and spent several hours sitting in traffic. Oh the traffic! Seriously, what should have only been about two hours in the car was about ten hours and when we'd get out to stop it was freezing! Mind you, it had been above 90 in Portland the whole time she was here, but the day we decided to go to the coast is was in the low 50's and we were all dressed in summer clothing. She was a good trooper about being stuck in the car all day and kind of having a bum day, but miss Gypsy got so bored she ate the car....when I say ate the car she ate all the way down to the actual metal frame of the car! That means she ate the carpet, fiberglass, & fluffy insulation. What a cheap fix-NOT! Try $226 for this "little" puppy mishap, but it was hard to be mad at her when she was stuck in the car for 10 hours with little exercise, but she still was sneaky, b/c she was able to destroy the car with none of us noticing.
(I didn't actually take this picture, but was able to find one of the free we were stuck on-this is about two exits from our house. At least the freeways are kind of pretty to look at.)What did we do for the 4th? I had these great plans to buy loads of fireworks since they are legal here and there were both set up on every corner of the street, but I just never got to it. Instead, we drove around the streets and watched all the families doing the firecrackers in the front of their homes, which actually was very fun. There were so many firecrackers done in Hillsboro that the entire air had a big cloud of sulphur-smelling smoke (is it weird that I like that smell?). Oh yeah, we made a stop at Albertson's where I got carded (really, I don't like 18?hahaha) and did buy some sparklers which we did on our balcony.
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