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Sun 05/21/2006 13:56 Image(178)

In the car. :)

I love to play...

What's your favorite board game?

For board games, I'm a big fan of scrabble. It's fun to try and find words. I do like to play with a scrabble dictionary nearby because otherwise, I try and play words that I'm not 100% sure if they really are real "scabble-official" words :P

For regular games, I have quite a lot to pick from. E's family has TONS and tons of games, and so he grew up with lots of game playing all the time.

So we have a lot of different games in our house, not all board games. I'll have to take some pictures one of these times of the stacks and piles we have!

Rummikub is probably my favorite non-board game. It doesn't require quite as much brain power as scrabble, so it's fun to get out of in front of the tv for a bit and play rummikub.

Fruit

Sat 05/20/2006 14:17 Image(176)

My fresh fruit salad. Watermelon, raspberry, and kiwi!

Boo!

Do you believe in ghosts? Follow-up question: What's the most supernatural experience you've ever had?

Well I'm not sure about ghosts. I'm more supernaturally conscious than some, I think. My siblings would flat out tell you "No" if you asked about ghosts.

I know that ghosts and angels are different, but in some sense, the invisible forces that may be around us seem connected. Wow, typing that, I could see some Christians hitting me over my head for even saying it that way. :P

But okay, I had this experience once, and I'm completely believing still that it was an angel.

We were at Mt. Hood and I was probably 11 or 12 and we were playing by the building in the snow while my parents were inside. I fell next to the building. It was hollowed out from the heat. I was pinned, and there was at least two feet of space from where I was pinned and where the opening was above my head. I remember looking up and freaking out, yelling for my brother.  I was completely stuck and unable to move for several minutes.

Then, the next thing I know, I was standing next to the hole. There's no possible way I could have climbed. And there was proof I was down there because my boots were stuck in the hole and my dad had to dangle my brother down to get them. The only explanation is that I was lifted out faster than my comprehension.

And that's my most supernatural story...

You just have to see...

If someone was visiting your town for the first time, what would be the one place you'd tell them they just had to go see

That's a very good question. There is SO much gorgeousness in our area that it's hard to pick just one. Plus, we've done this kind of thing lots - our family loves to show off our area to out of towners, and we were so amazed for the first 5-10 years we lived here (I was 10 when we moved to WA) that we went and did these touristy things over and over and over.

If it's the right time of year (like now), I'd probably pick the Rose Gardens. They are amazingly beautiful, and there's a perfect view of Mt. Hood.

For people that I know well, I tend to enjoy taking people down the gorge to the Bonneville Dam, where they have a fish viewing room, and you can walk on the generators. It's a cool place to spend an afternoon walking and playing, and it's a beautiful drive there. If someone was really interested in hiking, they could stop a mile before it and go up Beacon Rock. And if they were wanting more, they could go around the gorge loop: go over the beautiful Bridge of the Gods another mile after the dam, then get yummy fries and ice cream at Cascade Locks and then see Multnomah falls and Crown Point on the other side.

If we had a little longer, and people hadn't been to the coast, Lincoln City is an amazing place to go to because it's right on the beach and oregon beaches are so different from say California. ;)

But really, the thing I tend to bring people from out of town to is restaurants. We have a lot of favorites, and even though they aren't all unique to our area, it's a fun time to sit together and laugh and eat. Old Spaghetti Factory is a good example of a restaurant that isn't just local, but a very good place to take out of towners because we have the very first one here in Portland (the purple roof one!)

I didn't do a very good job at saying "one place" did I? ;)

I had a post a year or so ago on my main blog with links to most of these place and it worked out well for enhancing this one heh!

Hot

Wed 05/17/2006 16:27 Image(174)

I seriously thought i was going crazy because i was hot. But no, E turned off the a/c last night when i was out. And it took me till now to realize it was this got and not running. Doh!

When I grow up...

I really wanted to be a librarian when I grew up. I loved books, and I loved going to the library.

I actually volunteered for 2 1/2 years (once a week for 4 hours each week) at the library, starting when I was 12. They didn't normally let people my age volunteer, but they made an exception because I was a homeschooler who had been going to the library at least once a week for several years. :) I knew many sections of the books (christian fiction namely) better than the real librarians by that point ;)

As I got older, I realized it was more realistic to be a business major and work for my family business.

I'm still completely enamoured with the library and wish I got to go more often. :)

Surprise me.

Finding a boyfriend just 14 days before I graduated after being at college for 4 whole years without a real boyfriend.

Do note that he is now my husband ;)

Park

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On our long walk yesterday we saw a little park with nobody at it. I needed a break so we stopped and played for a few. We are just big kids i tell ya!

!Macy's

Sat 05/13/2006 13:34 Image(165)

Underneath the meier & frank banner is a macy's sign. We just keep laughing that they beautifully redesigned the front of the building and now this?! Heh! It's apparently notMacy's yet.