New Years

For our ultra exciting New Years we went over to Matt's and played poker until 12:01 when we all bailed and went home to sleep.

Christmas

Christmas was over at my parents again. Simone, Mary and Trey came up to eat all the cinammon rolls and pork loin. Simone liked her new cape after I wore it and showed her how cool capes really are.

Simone

Walk downtown

After 2 weeks of being stuck at home I walked down to work to pick up Christmas packages. There was still a lot of snow and I used my shoes with screws on the bottom which worked out pretty nicely.

Tabor in snow

Mt. Tabor Summit

Mt. Tabor

Snow

We finally got some snow in Portland that shut the city down for 2 weeks.

Dusting on Mt Tabor

Seattle

Sara and I had grand plans of going up into the mountains to go hotspringing and camping. The cold front that said it was coming with 7 degree weather talked us out of it. Instead we slept in and went to Dish for breakfast and then headed up North to get in a good hike. This time the weather talked to Sara's shoes and said they shouldn't hang out. So instead of hiking we walked over a bridge to look at the river and headed back to town to visit REI and buy some shoes for Sara.

Sara had talked about this mythical mountain bike park under the bridges of Seattle. I thought it sounded like the Troll that lives under bridges. This, like The Troll was true. We will be making trips over there to get ready for, well, get ready for talking about mountain biking.

We celebrated our conquest of nature that night by having dinner at a Japanese restaurant that cooked their food on stones. They were quite friendly and even did the "Irashayimase" when people came in. It was quiet good. The beer helped out as well.

Snow North of Seattle

Guns

Today we went to BFE to go shooting guns and chew terbaccy. I skipped on the tobacco but shot a few guns, I even got some of the elusive pudding pops. Us:1 / Terrorists:0

Munra Point

We went into the Gorge to hike up Munra Point. It was a perfect day and the trail was fairly dry. This didn't stop me from falling on my ass on the way down though. We saw salmon in the river (or sturgeon if you ask Matt.) The top of the hike is the coolest location in the Gorge that I've been on, but you can see for yourself below.

Forest Park Hikes

I've been continuing my weekly hikes in Forest Park to try and get in some sembalance of shapeness. As it is I just see joggers who keep flying by me.

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving was spent at the beach and I'm proud to say we ate 5 pies in 1 1/2 days.