Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Here's Patricia!


I just thought I would show you a picture of Patricia. She's my British friend I met at the beach.

If you want to know about good places to visit you should visit Yelp.com
It's a website that reviews businesses, mostly restaurants, and it's a great resource. You can become members, and give reviews too. I'm on there too, so you can become my friend.

I'm going on a walk through Forest Park. Enjoy the sunshine!

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Facundo Maldonado campeonato Codobes de baile de Tango


We took tango lessons from these two while we were in Argentina! Danny worked with Facundo, (the bald man pictured) at Intel. We both danced with him, and he taught us how to tango. If you can't read Spanish, he is the Tango champion in Cordoba. I love it! The woman he is dancing with is the most sassy woman I've ever met. She's hilarious, and one heck of a dancer, and of course he is too. I am so proud of him!

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Went to the beach

I went to the beach this weekend with some ladies from a small group I lead. You want to know what my favorite part of the trip was? I met an older English woman in a store/cafe called Java Depot, named Patricia, and she was fabulous! I loved everything about her. She was honest, sassy, loved food, had a great sense of humor...she just seemed to enjoy life. I got my picture taken with her. At first she was shy about it, but then she got into it, it was cute.

I bought a present for Danny from Patricia(I can't tell you what it is because sometimes he reads these entries, so that would give it away), but she gave me this free container of Applewood smoked salt. You open it up, and it is like you just built a campfire. It smells so good. It was so sweet of her because she knew I liked it so much after we talked, and she snuck it to me, and said, "Now take this, it's just for you." I told her I thought she was an angel. She was so sweet. I love meeting people that are a breath of fresh air.

The beach we went to was Neskowin, it's near Lincoln City. I had never heard of it before this trip. Everyone in town had a certain demeanor that I enjoyed. They all seemed comfortable and real, it was refreshing. It was my first time going to Grocery Outlet there, so I told the cashier chick that I loved the store, and that I was a Grocery Outlet virgin, so she gave my friends and I each a $5 off coupon because it was our first time in there. They have SUCH great deals. There's a type of hand soap my mom usually gets that's organic and smells wonderful. She pays $6.99 for it, and at Grocery Outlet it's $2.99. I bought her some it, and I am going to let her know where she can get it cheaper for the future.

I would highly recommend it for bathroom products. They have Jason products and Alba Organics. I didn't think they would have organic products, but they do, as far as body products go, I didn't look through other stuff. My husband got home from his trip this weekend, so I am going to go greet him.

Monday, July 6, 2009

St. Paul Rodeo



We went to the St. Paul Rodeo with some friends. It was Danny and my fifth year attending. This year they had two buffalo come out and steal the show! It was so funny. There's arborvitae (small tree) planted all around the stadium, and the buffalo were on a mission to knock it all out. That part wasn't scripted, everyone had a good laugh.

The picture might be fuzzy, but it's of the buffalo ontop of a trailer with the one armed bandit on the horse (named because he was in an accident and his arm was amputated, but he still rides.)

Herman Creek




I've been having fun times lately. I went backpacking with some friends two weekends ago to Herman Creek in the Gorge. It was the longest stretch of the Gorge I've seen.

The trip was really relaxing. We weren't really expecting much because the reviews of the place weren't that great, so it was better than we were expecting. We had a great lookout at Indian point (pictured). Danny and I walked carefully around the big body of rocks to the backside, and sat and took in the beautiful view. It was an amazing drop off that kind of made your stomach flip if you look down.

The campsite was better than we were expecting too. We found some unopened Japanese beer and shared some of it. It was 22% alcohol, and not tasty.