Portland and Brookings, Oregon

Hooray, we made it out of Canada.
We got in to Washington and stayed at the Tacoma Elks on Friday night. We called Bob Custer (Baja friend) and he took the ferry from Vashon Island to have dinner with us. It was a nice visit and we loved catching up with our sweet friend. Unfortunately his wife wasn't back from visiting family and we missed her.

We drove to Hillsboro, (suburb of Portland) and spent a few days with Kristi Wise, Karen's daughter. She played indoor soccer Saturday night and cooked dinner for all of us. Monday, Kristi took the whole day off to spend with her mom. We shopped and ate Thai food and talked for hours. It was so good to spent that time alone. We haven't talked that much in years!

Tuesday we planned on driving to Pacific City ( on the Oregon coast) to visit Barb and Craig Stephens but we had to take a little detour for a spare rim (ours broke in Hyder). Unfortunately the salvage yard had the rim mis-catalogued and it was the wrong one. So our detour turned out to be significantly longer. Instead of arriving around 1pm we didn't get there till 9pm. We were both very tired and just said "good night" to our friends and went to bed.

We had the most fun playing Hand-and-Foot Canasta all day for 2 days with Barb and "Wendel Whinner" (that's a joke). Friday we split company and headed for Brookings.

We got here in time to have dinner with Bobby and Katherine and the 3 kids. BOY, are they getting big. Christian is 15 and is a referee for the soccer league. Kaellen is 12 and Kylie is 9 and both play soccer too.

Today we attend church and drive to Red Bluff so I can spend Mon. and Tue. with Joy. More later as I get Internet again.