Portland Bridge Pedal

Although we spent most of the weekend recovering from Graham’s Birthday, we did participate in the Portland Bridge Pedal on Sunday. Graham and I joined 19,000 people, on a 36-mile bike ride over Portland’s ten bridges. I wish we had brought the camera to capture some lovely skyline views but the only picture we have is us in our awesome Bridge Pedal uniform. Maybe we will get better pictures next year.

Graham's Happy Birthday!

Graham’s birthday really began when he opened a present from me – adult Heelys (the shoes you see kids wearing and skating around in). After a few trial Heelin’ attempts, Graham was ready to show off his new skills. His first public appearance was a bit shaky (i.e. he wiped out twice skating up to our table at the restaurant) but he got the hang of it quickly. We had a tasty, meat packed dinner and dessert, with Kylie and Rita at Jimmy’s Smokehouse. We can all thank Kylie for this great shirt…then we went downtown to an arcade bar and met up with some more friends. We ended the night at Portland City Grill with a final birthday dessert.

Oregon Coast Fishing

I have never been good on boats…

Luckily Stan, my step-Grandpa, decided to give me a chance. I’m not sure if we will be invited back but we managed to have a good time regardless. Graham and I drove down to Newport late Friday night and slept on the boat. We woke up around 5:30, after maybe five hours of sleep, to go buy fishing permits and to purchase the later regretted Cinnamon whole milk latte – blah. We were out to sea by 7:45 and did not return to solid land until 5:30pm. Graham and I both caught Halibut (Halibut are bottom fish that we caught 250ft below the surface). Mine was about 20inch long and 17lbs and Graham’s was 40inch and 40lbs! Stan’s son Richard, also caught a Halibut but we let that one go. I was sick most of the time and finally fell asleep in the sun only to receive a terrible sunburn. Still we had a good time and we had a great dinner Sunday night – plus was have these brag worthy fish pics.

Beer Feast 2007!

A well-spent Saturday had us down on the Portland Waterfront, holding souvenir, color changing mugs of beer (I had the blue and Graham had pink). We walked to the waterfront from our house around noon and met up with Rita, Ann and Lindsay. This was an all day event, during which I’m pretty sure with the five of us, we tasted most of the beers presented! Kylie and Matt met up with us later and tasted everything else….I also did a good job sampling most of the food vendors. We had a lot of fun and can’t wait to do it all again next year.

B-Day Road Trip

Just wanted to get out of town for a while. What was suppose to be a weekend road trip became a fast paced one day driving marathon but we had a good time doing it. This was Graham's first (and probably last) experience at Char Burger an Oregon/Western experience. Graham was mesmerized by all the guns, arrowheads and wagon artifacts that hung on the wall. After burgers and milkshakes we drove around the Mountain. We stopped for some pretty high dessert hikes in Kahneeta and then headed home.

Birthday celebration!

My first blog....

Well we finally have a digital camera to capture our adventures. Here's my birthday - I don't know how Graham escaped the camera. I shared a very tasty meal with my lovely sister and Mom and some close friends. For the first time in years my birthday fell on a Friday night. We didn't go wild but we had a lot of fun. Now for a short week Graham and I are the same age. We've both been the same age since I turned 28 on June 29th but it has taken me awhile to get our pictures up.