Winter Storm 2008!!!

Portland had been very cold this week. We got good snow on Sunday, it was really nice (watching from inside.) It stopped snowing on Monday and I went to work via the MAX. The temperature was still very cold and very windy so I really hated it when I had to wait for the MAX/streetcar/bus. These pictures were from Sunday.

View from the bedroom at around 9am, it was snowing pretty hard.

The street car was running.
Traffic got worse and the day went by. The ramp to the Marquam bridge was really slick and people had a lot of problems getting up the slope. A truck was stuck for a long time and kept spinning his wheel. The TV helicopter was out filming and we saw it on TV and from the living room window.

After lunch, we went out to take some pictures. The snow had let up a bit and already melted a little. Michelle made meatloaf last night so we had a yummy meat loaf sandwich. Michelle at our favorite photo spot - Pettygrove park right downstair.


Joe at one of the little hills in Pettygrove park.
Joe making a snowball. The snow was dry and fluffy so it didn't stick together real well.

Anyway, it's a Wednesday and I called in a snow day today. It took it's time, but it started snowing around 10:30am and will be bad driving today so I stayed home. It is snowing a lot more in Hillsboro near Intel so I'm glad I didn't go to work.

Seattle road trip

I listened to The Killers new CD and wanted to go to see them in concert, but they were only going to play in Seattle. So I go ahead and got tickets and tried not to think too much about the drive. We went to H&M, a clothing store in Seattle, but we didn't buy anything. Then went to have Chinese food. Michelle wanted Beijing duck so we ordered it. The duck was just a regular BBQ duck, man what a rip off!!! Anyway, the salt pepper squid was good. Then went to the show after dinner, it was a great show.

Death Cab For Cuties - they were ok, not that great.

The Killers were awesome, they played a bunch of great songs from all their albums.

Excellent show.


We got lucky and got out of the parking structure very quickly. I thought ahead and parked near the exit. Also remembered to park backed in, backing out into the crowd and cars trying to get out would have been a pain. 8)
Finally got home at 2am, whew, we are getting too old for this.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone,
We just stayed home the whole day and didn't go anywhere. The Portland zoo had a free day and we were thinking about going to see the new baby elephant, but it's too cold. We've seen baby elephants before anyway, and we could pet them in Chiangmai. 8)
Michelle made a great Thanksgiving meal today. No turkey though. We got green beans, yams, mushroom risotto, rack of lamb and Oregon pinot noir. We got the rack of lamb from Trader Joe's and it was really good, juicy and yummy. We took a big nap afterward and just kick back, didn't make it to the zoo.