I hate Fox News

Every year I visit my parents in New Mexico for Christmas.  It is fun for me because it is the only time that I get to see my Mom and her husband, and my two younger brothers.  I get home cooked meals that I don't have to make myself and I usually have a pretty good time.  The only thing that I don't enjoy is that my parents watch Fox News ALL THE TIME.  It drives me crazy, none more than Mr. Bill O'Reilly himself and I always get into heated arguments with my Step father over the opinions on that channel.  Anyway, I saw this comic and liked it.  

Crazy ?drunk? Guy

So last night, Stu and I were sitting in our living room when Noah called us to let us know that there was some guy screaming outside his building.  I stuck my head outside and (since we live a block away from Noah) the crazy dude was making his way down by our house.  First, he attacked our neighbors fence (good thing it is strong) and then he came down to the corner, to the house across from us, and ripped their Obama sign out of their yard, went up their steps and banged it against their door.  He proceeded to turn down Washington, walking in the wrong direction down the middle of the street, screaming (in gibberish), attacked another sign and then disappeared down 13th.  Crazy.

Stu and I walked to our neighbors and saw that the Obama sign was crumpled and ruined, sitting on their porch.  Wow.  I think someone really didn't like Obama.  He had attacked a couple of other political signs in the neighborhood and I am really glad that he didn't see our Obama sign on our porch.  Too close for my comfort.  

Anyway, it was weird and the kind of thing you only see on TV so I thought I would post it.  

Weekend Surprise

Stu finished his last class of his college career on Friday.  To kind of celebrate, we went up to Portland to see his family and have dinner with his sister on Saturday.  The idea was to just get out of town for a little bit.  On Sunday, Stu surprised me by asking if I wanted to go to the coast.  I have really been wanting to make it over to the Newport area because I miss the ocean but we just haven't made the time; Stu has always been busy with school and I was always busy with work.  It was really cool to just decide to go spur of the minute.  We ended up crossing over from Wilsonville and stopped at Lincoln City and then went down to Newport for lunch/dinner (it was pretty late by the time we made it) at the original Rogue Brewery.  The funny thing was that we also decided to go through the wax museum and Ripley's Believe it or Not while we were there.  It was pretty funny going through those things.  I was totally freaked out in the wax museum though.  It was all dark and creepy...The best part of the trip, of course, was the taffy that we brought home.  It was definitely a great way to end the weekend!

the classic bridge picture

         

I found a Big Daddy!!  You have to click on this picture to make it bigger.  I didn't notice this at the time but my flash totally caught the "Big Daddy's" eyes.  Creepy!!  EEK!

Congratulations Mr. Glusman!

As most of you probably already know, our friend Noah is getting ready to begin his teaching career in a few days!  He was hired at Churchill High School teaching Social Studies and Economics (and maybe another subject but I am a terrible friend and may have forgotten) and Stu and I were able to visit him today.  He was in the process of decorating his room and I took a few pictures.  I hope you don't mind that I put them up Noah...I'm pretty excited for you!

Noah behind one of his desks putting up a poster

Maps!

Seattle Trip

This last weekend was the PAX expo that Stu and Kenton have been planning to go to for months.  It was held in Seattle and lasted all weekend long, and since they were already getting a hotel, Katrina and I decided to go along and have a "Girls Weekend" while the guys nerded it up.  

The guys spent almost all of the waking hours at the Seattle Convention Center so Katrina showed me around Seattle (she and Kenton spent a year in Seattle) and we went shopping.  Of course, I didn't take any pictures until the last afternoon when we went down to the Pikes Market so all I have are the typical Seattle tourist pictures.

The pub near the convention center where we had lunch.

It was really nice to get out of town for the entire weekend and to be able to hang out with friends the whole time!  Katrina and I got a lot of shopping done (we brought about five pairs of shoes home between the two of us!) and it was pretty much the best way to end the vacation--besides the shower in the hotel room that literally felt like it was ripping the flesh off of your body.  But other than the shower, it was awesome.  Thank you guys so much for inviting us along on the trip!!