One year!!!! We did it!!! Matthew and I have reached our one year anniversary and to celebrate we drove up to Oregon and Washington. We never realized how many trees there are in the North West until we drove 2,000 miles in 4 days. We left Saturday morning and reached Portland Saturday night, celebrated at Macaroni Grill and toured the city. Sunday we went to Multnomah falls and took hundreds of pictures of the beauty surrounding us. Then we drove up to Washington, and saw what it had to offer.... more trees! Our night finished in Portland at a Thai restaurant. Our favorite! While we were finishing up, Nick called from Texas! We were lucky enough to get to hear from him even though we werent at home in Southern California with my mom. He is doing great and sounding happy!! We went back to the hotel and had a toast with sparkling cider to many more years of love and friendship, and whatever the future has in store for us. Monday we drove up the coast of Oregon and were able to see the beautiful cliffs and a light house along the shoreline. We ended up in Chehalis, WA to say hi to Matt's family and enjoy some more trees. It was a great trip full of lots of driving, lots of trees, and lots of pictures!
Here are a few things we learned while on our trip:
90% of the population of Oregon is overweight. (Or so it seems) We think they should do a "Biggest Loser- Oregon"
The Lewis and Clark trail somehow encompasses every inch of Oregon and Washington. (Or so it seems)
No matter how short your destination is, you are bound to cross at least one bridge. If they were to charge a maximum toll of $0.25, we would be broke!
"Twilight" wasnt actually filmed in the small town of Forks, WA. It was filmed in Oregon.
Based off reasearch published by NASA, there are approximately 61 trees for every person in the world. For every person in Oregon, it is a different story, there are well over 3,000 per person.
8 comments:
Congrats on the year mark! Multnomah Falls is pretty sweet -
AWESOME! Love it. So have you gotten to that blog yet? Let me know. Yeah I looked a Kerstin's blog holy crap its so high tech. I have no idea how to do stuff like that.
I hope you spent an hour TREE HUGGING! It's very therapeutic! :) I love love love my beautiful Oregon! Thanks for the pictures! And it looks like I'm needed there... someday I will go back and start up a public health weight loss initiative!
Happy First Anniversary!! Hope you have many, many more. Who needs to hug trees when you have each other.
Happy Anni! This year has flown by! You two seem to be really enjoying the Pac. N/W! I bet our Texas cows would be jealous of those "happy Californian cows" -- who probably make great cheese, right?
Corinne I don't know the password to our blog.
Hey! Congrats on the one year thing! I'm kinda proud that you guys chose the northwest to come celebrate. We just went to Multnomah falls a few weeks ago too! Next time you're in the area stop by to say hi :) Kirk and I live in Beaverton (just outside of Portland).
You drove right through where I grew up, in Yreka California and Medford, Oregon. Ah, Oregon... where you can find whole stores devoted to Birkenstocks. Where they still do "NO ON 8" demonstrations, even though a) the election was clear back in November and b) Oregonians can't vote on California propositions. But I love it anyway... happy happy anniversary!!!
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