18 hours- Home again

Friday was the BIG Day for my Cousin's Son and his Bride.  So Paul and I were up and in the car by 6:15AM.  For those who know me that isn't easy to do for me. Mostly because I stay up too late the night before getting ready.  Ya, I do stay up too late most nights, but I digress...

So we are travelling to Portland and between my reading & sleeping I see THIS and have to post it to my FB from my phone. My ZOOM feature doesn't work so good...it's wind turbines on the hill way back there. That prompted ? of where were we going and was there a quilt show going on?
                                                                     This is why we went.

Peeking though the photographers to get my picture of the newlyweds.  

I had to remember being there 13 years ago and 11 years ago with my children.  

The Bride and groom exit wasn't there then.  We had the front automatic glass doors in all of our 'Newlyweds coming out of the Temple' pictures.  They call Portland the "Bride's Temple" for a good reason and the weather was nice - NO Rain in Lake Oswego on a special family Wedding Day is a good thing.

 The happy Couple and the Groom's parents. It was hard to get a picture of all of the cousins and their wives together.  Cindy and Tami were either in the pictures or taking them.

 4of the 5 Squires siblings

 Me with my cousins.

 I always wanted to spend time at their house when we went to Idaho!  The best Summers of my childhood were spent at Uncle Leo & Aunt Thelda's house. It was so good to see them.

Kaydean and Ledge

           Jeanine and Paul                                                              David and Cindy

The luncheon afterward was in Salem 60 or so miles south of Portland.  We didn't RSVP but some who did couldn't make it so we decided to make the extra time to go there. We took an overnight bag, just in case he didn't have to work Saturday. When he called work they said lots of totes of Peas were coming in and he was needed.  Paul said that by the time we got on the road to go home-  the rush hour, Friday night traffic through Portland would be bumper to bumper. SO...we looked and saw that the road across and through Sisters wasn't that far out of the way and the traffic wouldn't be too bad, right?   I had hoped to maybe ask Paul to drive home that way, but was afraid to mention it before we left home.  I would rather have been there next week-end when the Quilt show is on!

The drive was interesting to see the Trees and Mountains and the roads were good.  A few more semis because it is a truck route, but there were extra lanes to pass on the hills.  We got up to 3,000 feet elevation and passed the 45th parallel twice.  I took a few of the pictures from my window with my camera, but will have to save them until I can figure out how to connect my phone to the folders on the computer. I tried to email them to myself but there is too many to choose.  I got the phone to make a slideshow though...it only worked to see it on the phone.  I'm still learning the tricks on my new Droid phone. 

We learned that these trees were killed by beetles, then a fire 5 years ago burned them  It was a shock to go from the green forest to this forest of sticks.

I think this is Mt Washington.  The mountain range we saw has Mt Jefferson and Mt Bachelor in it too.

 Me at the Stitchin' Post ---1 week too early and about an hour too late to shop. I only got to peek in the windows. I have to think of all the $$$ I saved.

                                    This is a wall outside the Cowboys and Cowgirls restrooms.

Me with my Frozen yogurt waffle cone. The dime store and the yogurt shop were open.

 The long way home through Grass Valley.                     Beautiful Sunset on Mt Hood.

Here's the big orange moon that we saw coming home at the middle of the night.  We were gone a total of 18 hours.  Home at 12:15 AM. I can't say my DH never takes me anywhere...