2008 Christmas

We finally got down to LA after another problem at the airport.
On Tuesday, we went to the airport and our flight is late from Chicago. So we will our connecting flight to LAX. We decided to fly out anyway because we don't want to be stuck in Portland, more snow was coming. We got to San Francisco airport at midnight and stayed in the terminal until 5am. Then we went to get on stand by to LAX and luckily got on, yea!!

Some pictures from LA.
Nok drove us to Wat Thai. The food stalls in the parking lot are all closed down. We saw one at the school courtyard and that was it. too bad.

Man Chinese Theater. Joe finally got to see the Hollywood walk of stars.

LA Subway station, pretty nice.

Jimi Hendrix star


Jimi Hendrix impersonator. We saw Rambo, Elvis, Marilyn Monroe and a bunch of other people. It was pretty busy on Hollywood, fun.

Nik has more pictures. Nik, send me the pictures and I can put on my blogo.
bye for now.

Once every 50 years snow storm coverage continues

Dec 21.
Yesterday was quite a misadventure. We left the building at 7am and headed to the airport. Portland got freezing rain overnight so there is a sheet of ice over snow. At the bus stop we and a few other riders were harassed by a homeless woman. She was yelling "You crazy people going to work on Sunday at this hour? Your are all slave to drug." Then sang Chestnut roasting on an open fire with a lot of expletives inserted. Tough to be homeless in this weather.
We got on the bus then connect on the Blue line MAX and got off at Gateway stop. The Red line to the airport is closed because the track switch frozed. We got off and waited for a shuttle, it was really cold with some serious wind blowing out of the George. There were 3 buses there and they wouldn't go to the airport. These are "warming bus" for people to stay warm on. jeezzz... We waited for 30 minutes and finally the airport shuttle showed up. Everyone rushed the bus, the driver has a Russian accent and eventually he yelled - "no more, next bus for you." We got on though.
We got to the airport and all morning flights was canceled and we waited in line to try to get on another flight. I got through on the cell phone somehow so we rebooked the flight 2 days later on Tuesday. Hopefully the weather cleared by then. We got the ticket from the machine so we were able to go inside the terminal and get lunch at Laurelwood Brewing company. Trudge home...

Dec 22.
Woke up to a flurry of snow. Michelle finally gets her snow day, but she already took vacation. Oh well, bad timing, the story of Michelle's life. 8) Joe decided to make the best of it and try snowboarding.


The Pettygrove park next to our building.


Our favorite photo spot. The snow is fluffy and about a foot deep.

Wheeee..... the whole 5 seconds of it. I thought I would never say this, but too much powder. There is not enough slope so once I get down to the foot of the little hill, that's it. It was really had to put the binding on too, I'm pretty rusty.

Joe's 1st snow angel. yea!! On the side of our building. I was thinking "hope there are no yellow snow under here." There are a lot of dogs in our building.
Looks more like a Swiss Chalet than Portland in this snow.

The corner of First and Harrison is very treaturous today. Two buses got stuck and blocked the street car. I guess we're not going anywhere else today.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed for tomorrow flight.
Happy Holidays!!!

Arctic Blast 2008 continues!

It has been cold for the whole week, very unusual for Portland. It's Saturday and it is snowing pretty good. Our flight to LA is tomorrow morning so hopefully the airport will be open.

We went to the library and it was closed, but we dropped the dvd in the drop box.

The Dreamer looks great in the snow.



Michelle
Us with the Portland sign.
The Christmas tree

A street car got stuck in front of our building. It was a just a little slope.

The Tri Met guys are still deicing the track a few hours later.


Internet is not good, hopefully we make it out of Portland tomorrow.