I'm Back!!!

Thursday morning dawned beautiful and COLD BRRRRR!!!! Melanie and I decided to leave after the kids got on the bus, 7 ish. So due to uncontrollable events (grumpy Hunter) We left about 8:30 a.m. I have to say the driving went real smooth with a 2 and 3 year old. This was Emi's longest road trip....EVER.... She rocked it. We stocked the car with tons of food, books, and toys.

On the road in Thayne.

Yeah we know we are hot. When road trippn' no makeup is required.

So we drove all day. I would like to say it was a breeze but it wasn't.We went through a canyon called Tin Cup it is long and very twisty. Needless to say Emi BARFFED.... yup all over it was nasty. The funny part was that every time we drive that canyon she does it I was even prepared for it. When she started drooling I knew what was coming,I reached with the bag just as she reached her mouth with her hand and knocked the bag out of mine and BLLLLUUUUUTT all over . And Nolan says "EWW gross!!!" HA HA! We stopped in Soda Springs to do damage control and then proceeded on. Not making good time......

We got to Pocatello so the midgets could walk around and get the funk off so to speak. Wal-mart is always the stop of champions so that was the place. We purposely didn't put on a movie in the car because we didn't want them to get bored. So when we came out of Wal- Mart we decided it would be a good time to start a movie...... Not. Melanie's kids had taken all the cords out of the DVD players case and we had nothing. To say she was a little up set is an understatement. Man they are lucky she had 6 days to cool off!!! So back into Wal-mart she went and got another player. You have to have a player on a 13 hour journey. After that all was well. Mel drove while my butt was in the rear view mirror (taking care of kids. Sorry Mel, I know that can be disturbing.)

It was about 5 p.m. when Mel's friend, Julie, called to say she had the flu...... We were going to stay with her for 3 nights so we were totally bummed. Thank goodness for cell phones and modern technology. Mel spent the next few hours hunting down a room. At 12:30 a.m. we arrived in Troutdale Oregon at the Holiday Inn Express.

I grew up in the Antelope Valley. For those of you who don't know the AV I will elaborate.... The trees grow sideways. It is that windy there. Your windshield on your car has a sandblasted effect and your hair always looked bad.

Troutdale exceeded all of those expectations. I honestly thought that our car was going to be gone in the morning. The window in our room shook all night. CRAZY. I could not believe the wind. The funny thing is that if the building had been rotated like 10 feet in one direction we could have slept like babies. The stinkin' wind was blowing right into our window.ugh....

A midget party in room 20!! YIPEE!!!

Me after a great nights sleep.

So we got up the next day and we were off to our first event.

All of you girls know how wonderful it is to have a good hair cut and how rare it is to find someone who is one with you and your hair. Well Melanie has found that someone...She just happens to work in Camas Oregon. So we went to get the ultimate hair cut. It was fast and painless.

We then took off to the Portland Children's Museum. This was awesome. The kids had a blast. Emi was obsessed with the water room, we spent alot of time in there. This place has it all. I highly recommend it to any one going to Oregon. We also met Bob the Builder. He totally freaked Emi out!!

Creepy man with a big head!!!

Water world YEAHHHHHH!

Totally cool bridge!! Like mother like daughter.

This place has it all really!! It was a great reward for the kids to have after driving in the car soooo long. They played hard all day we were there for about 5 or 6 hours I think.

We were then rewarded with the perfect gift..............

AHHHHH!