I'm exhausted. it was a fun time and a great break from the house work which has been kind of on hold because of frustration and illness. but I have some new motivation and ready to make some real progress.
so let me catch you all up on things that have been happening this year. i posted a lot of pics on my flickr page but here are the high lights.
first are a few of the best pictures i took of the hummingbirds just out side the front window, heres a link
Next are a few pictures i during my first trip out on the rogue river with megan, dan, cassidy, austin and megan's dad. it was a great day, very fast, and a fun time.... hehehe, funny story, so sometimes after a big rapid you have to pull over to the side to empty the water out of your raft, sometimes while everyone else continues down river leaving you alone. well when i flipped my raft over my paddle shot out and started to float quickly down stream... with no one to help nearby not bad but the paddle is kind of necessary. i jumped head first on to my raft and started to paddle with my arm to chase it down. after about 100 yards, i caught it!!! and to my surprise i heard cheering... looked up and there were a bunch of people at the galice restaurant watching all my excitement. here's a link to the pics
also this summer my roommate from college got married at OSU. had a blast. saw a lot of friends i haven't seen in a very long time. it was an early afternoon wedding and after the reception a bunch of us headed out to the pubs for a little fun. heres a few pics
A place i have to recommend for everyone to visit is the susan creek campgrounds and hike all the waterfalls nearby. it was a family trip with my parents, sister, and the puppies, also all my parents neighbors. It was so amazing and i took hundreds of pictures. hope you enjoy my favorites. here's the link
and now my most recent trip, megan and dan's wedding...which i wish i would have taken more pictures but i'm sure i'll post some later from the photographer. like i said before i stretched out my trip to about 2 weeks. had a fun time up in portland with my cousin brian his wife claire, my sister and some beer. we intended to have a fun time at the porland brewers festival but it was crazy packed full of drunk people, sure there were like 50 breweries offering tastings there but every single line took atleast 20 minutes to go though... glad we all agreed to drink our tastes quick and get out of there and head to somewhere better. and lucky for us my friend raechel works at a really cool bar called uptown billiards. got their happy hour special, a 5 course meal (tiny servings) with wine pairing... it was great! plus she kept bringing us random things to taste too. also that week i met up with raechel for a concert, chromeo... a goofy electronica, dance, punk...umm not sure what to call it, but it was so much fun. after the concert went to the famous voodoo donuts and i got a captain crunch donut!!! (they were all out of the bacon topped maple bars) and then headed for a cool fountain to play in. one of those moments when you are just waiting for the cops to appear and grab you for being drunk and silly. oh and spent the night in a hammock... a perfect ending to a kicka$$ evening. also that week i got together with all my old roommates from college for a bbq. i miss those guys, we always have so much fun hanging out. the last night in portland was a little fuzzy... went to a wine tasting at uptown billards, hard to keep track of your drinking when its all so good. but i do remember after the tasting "helping" out a couple ladies (some may call them cougars, hehehe) with their pool game and being a dork, but heck i got Victoria's numbers. after a slow morning i headed for Megan's place. 3+ hour drive hung over is no fun. but made it. and what a ball of stress megan was...hahaha sorry if you read this megan but i gotta be honest, not judgemental, just how it was for me. you know i love ya. i can't believe i was there for like a week and a half, what a blur!!! all in all it was a great wedding, everyone looked great, the place was beautiful and a lot of fun looking back, sure there was lots of drama but if you have been around megan much thats just the way it is. i was one of the groomsmen, each of the pairs wore matching colors... i was tangerine with megan's friend kate. all during the reception we called each other tangerine. after teh wedding i changed out of my tux into a suit, which many joined along and we headed out for a little fun, a little karaoke and late night dennys. as a wedding present megan and dan got a few mariners tickets and brought me and the best man along to sundays and mondays game... great seats too...about 20 rows up from 3 base. spent a million dollars on beer and food but you gotta! then after a few days of hanging out head back home, stopping in corvallis to visit with the sister for another couple days and now i'm back home! yeay!!! heres some pictures from the time i was up in seattle.
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