Happy birthday to a wonderful husband and my best friend! We spent the weekend celebrating by a picnic and boat ride on Friday night, dinner with friends on Saturday night, and a date night yesterday. Since our birthday's are so close together, we like to spread the party out a bit! The picture above is our dessert at a local restauran[...]
This weekend, we hiked back to the Adelmann Mine tucked away in the foothills. I have attempted to do some research on the mine, but there isn't much online about it (kind of strange for someone in my generation- I'm so used to being able to google anything). The mine looked like something out of an Indiana Jones movie! It was neat to[...]
Let me tell you, Portland has the most awesome Starbucks downtown. Maybe it is a little crazy that instead of finding the hip, local coffee shops, we head for the closest mega-chain? Anyways, Portland is pretty nifty. They most amazing book store, Powell's. It has multiple stories of books stacked floor to ceiling. I mean serious[...]