Today we hung out around portland.. Startig with a great bunch at a biscuit place… so yummy
Then a quick stop at a very trendy pet treat store.. check ut the menu
then home for a. little stretching. Nova can never be further tha a foot from diane when we’re here !
High point of the day was visiting Tucker, Hailey and their new son Winslow Haileys mom was in town too. Tucker’s an old freind from VT. so great seeing him whnever we’re here
We gave WInslow a tortise puppet.. because in the story of the tortise and the hare.. the tortise “wins slow” .. get it ?
Today we ran errands oincluding a stop at Costco to refuel gabes house.. Who knew that Costco had Durian ? If you havent tried Durian, you should.. It tastes great and smells so bad it makes you gag.. Hows that for a sales pitch ?
next stop was a stop at the dump to drop stuff off. I always like visiting here.. it puts me off consumerism for a couple of days !
Final stop for the night was goign with Sean and Mel to a new hot (as in poppular) Indian Pizza place.. I kow it sounds weird.. but it was truly amazing pizza.. Highly recommend !
Diane and I had a busy day aroudn Gabes while he was at school. Diane worked to beutify Gabes gardens and yard.. and my job was to mow the lawn… Which meant gettign the lawn mower to start for the first time.. A quick trip to fred meyers to get dry gas and carberator cleaner and I was able to get the thing running.. that took far longer than actually cutting the small lawn.. It really needed it.. !
When Gabe came home we met up with Gabe and Sammantha and went to a really yummy Thai place.. On the way home we decided to stop at Movie Madness.. The biggest DVD place that I know of in the whole universe. We opted for Oppie (Openheimer) and a My Neighbor Totoro … a 1988 manga-like movie from Studio Ghibli…
WHile in movie maddness I checked again to see if they still had the Colony on dvd.. they did !// kinda funny to find your own face in a place like this
We went home and whatched Totoro.. if you havent seen it.. check it out ! Super weird and sweet !
Today was a whirlwind.. We had our second session at Canyon Crest. It’s a huge and beutifu; school.. the folks in the office were super freindly as we badged in. As we waited we noticed the lost and found…. Look at all these water bottles searching for their owners !
Angelina and I helped the students complete their schematics and lay out their Printed cxircuit boards. Diane helped alert us to anyone who seemed to be struggling. Our goal was to have most of them finishing their designs before we left.. then they’d apply for the $100 OnBoard. grants and order their boaerds. One student, Charles.. actually got completely through the process which impressed me. By the time we all had to run for our planes, the class was in a good place, We had several fiirst-time issues, but all in all.. it felt like a great success.
Our frind Alvin from IEEE SOlid State Circuits arranged a very quick ceremony before we left and gave us all plaques for running the workshop.. DIane
We got to the airport in plenty of time to catch an earlier flight to Portland. vis SFO … unfortuunately, that plane was delayed for a couple of hours due to a maintaince issue. We got to SFO just 12 minutes before close of boarding on our outbound plane. Diane and I ran.. .. no sprinted … tot he other gate at full speed.. Thanks goodness we’re both runners. We made the plane by just 4 minutes ! ./ I hate running for planes.. !!!!!
We had a peacful flight to Portland.. Gabe piced us up and we went out for a great Greek meal.. SO good sweeing Gabe and Nova..! We’re staying at a place just around the corner that we really like.. and we really like the women who own it..
