Thursday night – Groundhog Day !

Happy that today is the day I head out to Portland to see Diane. Gabe. Same and Nova.. One of my main jobs was to take gabe microscope out. It’s at least 60 years old and pretty delicate.. so it had to be hand carried. I fitted out a pelican case for it and carried it on to the plane. I guess it looked pretty weird on X-ray because they took it apart to see what was in it. anyway.. got on board.. and wrote “micro” on my hand to make sure I didn’t leave it.. (also had a tracker on it)

I had two connections to make.. which made for a long day.. My first leg I traveled with my friend Sarah , her daughter and two of their friends. They were heading down to Nashville to see a show.. It was fun talking to them !

the wifi was bad on all of them so didn’t get much done.. but it was nice just relaxing. I even watched a bit of “Groundhog Day”.. in honor of the important holiday !

Midway I ran in to some kids heading to high cascade.. that’s the snowboard and ski camp that sam and gabe went to. It was fun talking to them about camp. and the famous cobra dogs !

I got to PDX around 6. Gabe picked me up.. we headed home , picked up diane and Sammantha and headed out to GadoGado.. a really easy Indonesian place.. We met up with Shawn and Mel and had dinner with them.. and then some of Gabe friends coincidentally came by.. it was really nice.. and sooooo tasty. They had this pumpkin and mushroom thing that I can still taste !