Oregon Pictures & A Note on Lodging

Finally got them up!

If you'd like to re-visit our too-long-ago past in a beautiful part of the country during one of the most beautiful seasons of the year, please do. It warms my heart, remembering all of the beautiful yellows and oranges of that state during that time of year. Seems like it was so long ago the way things look and feel around here, but it wasn't!

Make special note of the last series (including the orchards, sheep, pears, etc.) as these were taken at the TO-DIE-FOR bed & breakfast we stayed at called Sakura Ridge in Hood River. We stayed in the Orchard Room and no lie, I could have stayed there the rest of my life and not moved once except to eat and use the restroom and would have die in a state of sublimeness.

If you are EVER looking for an incredible place to go and get away, and are willing to spend a little bit of money that is worth every penny, I would, without a doubt, recommend this haven of a place. I can't say enough about it from the plush bed, to the loaded bathrooms (heated tiles & toilet seat, soaking tub, bidet, giant shower), to the delicious breakfast of homemade pear pancakes, sausage, and cherry-pear juice, to... the view. Oh my. Even without it's famed view of Mt. Hood due to cloud cover from the rain, it was breathtaking.



It lives in my heart, that's for sure.

Clifford's Travels

So at Lampo, they kind of require their people to go to a Live Event at least once. I mean, the radio and television show is one thing. But to go to a Live Event, which we did last year, is a whole other endeavor. Also, everyone has an opportunity to volunteer to work an event. And Cliff, because he has been wanting to for awhile and saw an opportune time and location to go, recently put in his request to work with the Live Events team for his first time.

He found out yesterday he gets to go!

I'm insanely jealous and still more excited about his first trip out to the Northwest, to this fine city:

for this event.

Yep, that's Portland, Oregon.

I (along with several of our friends) have raved about how wonderful it is out there, not just in Oregon but in Washington, too - and I hope he gets to see even just a glimpse of that. (Which, seeing Mt. Hood should probably be enough to make him want to go back.)

Either way, he's beyond excited and that makes me happy. So in a little more than a month, he gets to check another state off his list and get a feel for our major destination of choice next year (well, that is if we don't plan a ski trip for winter 2009, which we're dying to do).