Fun day yesterday… We all agreed to meet at 10 o’clock in the morning and head up to hang out on a river for the day. It was going to be hot and sunny so we knew it would be busy everywhere. Gabe found a great place in Washington state which was only about 40 minutes away… I was on a beautiful river… (The East Fork?)

We were joined by some of gabe’s friends… girlfriend Samm, Her roommate Emma, Gabe’s roommate Sean and keep his friend Taylor used to work at our favorite poke place. Really nice group for a really nice day



GabÉ had an inflatable boat and inflatable unicorn… We put those up with the car and Max and Gabe save them to our picnic place… We had to move to a new place because We needed to get more in the sun.

We hung around, eat, drink, explored… And then it was an epic game of Uno!

Around four we headed back towards Portland to prepare the party tonight… Max paddled the boat… Now down an oar that broke… And pulled it up At the put-in place

People started showing up around six…I think we had around 14 people… Diane had prepped on this wonderful food with lots of our help… We haf carne asada, grilled fish, Homemade guacamole, tons of tortillas, homemade pico to Gallo, salad and lots of margaritas !

Dang it also made a beautiful carrot cake so we had that and Ben & Jerry’s for a group birthday party of all the birthdays that were coming up

The crazy thing happened at the end of the evening… We were all looking at the moon when I was a planet off the tip… I think Jupiter… But I never washer. As I was looking up there, our friend Cody pointed at the other side of the sky and said what’s that… We were 100% sure we were having a UFO sightings… We ran out the door and looked at it was a long bar lights moving very very slowly across the sky… Very distinct

I posted it on Twitter and several other people had seen it to flying over Portland and Washington and British Columbia… We were so excited… Then larissa did a little research and it was Elon musk’s company starlink Communication satellites…

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.space.com/amp/spacex-starlink-satellites-surprise-british-skywatchers.html

Sort of disappointing that it wasn’t aliens… But still cool to see it

… Today I’m not sure what we have in store… I guess we never do :-)

More from the day later

Nite all, nite sam

-me

Busy but low stress day here in the rose city. Diane and I walked to the store on the way to Gabe’s and picked up supplies for the day. We got to Hanes in time for a short work out.. the. We walk headed to abbot and Amy’s very cool retro house . It was built in the early 1960/ as an example of the modern all electric home it has electric ceiling heat,. Electric oven and built in electric mixer . They’ve decorated it in exotic retro . It’s such a fun place . They made Latkes with home made hot sauce .. really yummy. We also got to see their dog Ripley

Then home to hang up at the house. We took one more big grocery run and prep for getting some folks together tomorrow… I got to meet GabÉ’s new neighbor Ted who went to see him you it is a robot guy.



Tonight we walk back to Hawthorne and try to go eat at car Topia and then another food cart court… They both were so full we ended up eating at “Lardo’s”… A place open by a guy who is from Vermont. It was pretty good… On the way home we walk through the “partition” and looked at the roses… On the way we found some junk out on the curb including a real life holster a bunch of belt buckles some shot glasses etc.… Score!

OK… Going to bed now. More tomorrow

Nite all, nite sam

-me

Super nice day hanging out with max, GabÉ and diane I. pOrtland . the hilight of the day for me was a stone cutting lesson from GabÉ. He’s teaching me to make a polished bird bath. You start by carving out a bowl shape in the rock using a diamond saw . Lots of noise and flying debris . What’s not to like ?!?

Diane made yummy pizza for lunch and we ate on the porch. Such beautiful weather !

I found this awesome face in one of the pieces of artichoke .. meet the artichoke king !

We all took a walk to the store and took advantage SoC being out to sightsee : flowers , biker memorials , tr es and cupcakes …lots to see

The night ended with us taking a all to burnside . We got there as all the restaurants were closing so we found a great fish and chips place, got take out and took it to a middle school playground and ate … really a great meal !

We then headed home for a drink at the gin alley . Max found a glass Buddha head on the way !

then an hour of looking through all purr newly online photos and movies .. great to do that together

Ok .. this is a day late. I’ll cwt h up with today tomorrow

Nite all, nite sam

-me

Woke up early because I was on a thesis defense this morning. The meeting went pretty well. The good news is the student passed His defense well!

And then met up with the rest of the family around 11

Dennard made a scrumptious breakfast… Massage kale for us and something with bacon for the boys

Max headed off to visit friends so keep dying and I had it down into the Columbia River Gorge on the Washington side to climb Mount Hamilton

We got back to town and dropped by GabÉ’s lab for him to do a quick cell culture procedure… When we went back to the house and met up with sam

We grabbed Sean and Fabian and we all walked over to Cubo… A great Cuban place down in Hawthorne

Then Gabe, Sam, ‘Diane and I did a long walk to view the “yarn bombs” that Nana amy does on Alder Street… She needs fabric around these trees as a show of some thing… Not quite sure what but it’s very cool

Put a cool, beautiful, and very interesting city this is… OK time for bed.

nite all? Nite sam

-me