condo update

Oh man, we are still moving stuffs and cleaning the old house. This is taking forever. We got about 99% of the stuffs moved, just a few things left in the garage.
Michelle graduated and her dad came up to attend the ceremony. We went sightseeing all over town and he helped clean up the house a lot too.
Here are a few pictures - as usual click it to see the larger picture.

The Hooding Ceremony was much nicer than the large ceremony in the Rose Garden. This is only for the Urban and Public Administration college.


We took the Portland Spirit sight seeing cruise. The ship went up the Williamette and we saw quite a few really nice houses next to the river as well as some cool boat houses.


Here is a couple of pictures of our condo as seen from the Portland Spirit. There are three buildings. We're the one closest to the river. We are on the 11th floor and have a great view of the river.



The view from our condo.
Mount Hood, OMSI and the Marquam Bridge (I-5)


Pirate boats in a staged battle. One of the ship is Lady Washington. It was used in the Pirate of the Caribbean movies. I'm using my x12 zoom camera here.



The Hawthorne Bridge. We can also see Mt. Adam and Mt. St. Helen from our balcony. They are a little hazy in the summer though.



fireworks from our balcony


We also went to the Rose Festival. This is the 100th year of the Rose Festival. It was raining like crazy and was very cold that day.


They also had dragon boat races the whole weekend.
Various Navy and Coast Guard ships also came in for fleet week during Rose Festival.

Close up of the tour ships.
OK, that's all for now. I'm taking 4th of July week off to relax a bit. I'll take more pictures and put them up on the blog. The inside of the condo is still a mess. It'll probably takes a few more weeks before everything is unpacked. I'll take a few more pictures then.

busy fixing up the house

Whew!
We are busy fixing up the house and getting ready to move so no new blog for a while. We'll start moving small stuffs on May 29th and then move most of the big stuffs on June 1st. We are going to rent out the Marina Ct. house. The monthly payment is not too expensive so we should be able to handle renting it out. More to come in a few weeks.

Penguin City Oregon

This is Penguin City, Oregon. Wow, a lot of penguins. I bet you didn't know there are penguins in Oregon. 8)


Click on the picture to zoom in.




















APRIL FOOL!!!
They are just birds of some sort. hahahahaaaa.
This is Canon Beach, Oregon. It was raining on our drive out, but turned out to be a pretty nice day later on. Haystack rock on the right center of this picture.



We drove out to the beach on Sat. March 31st because this is whale watching week. We went to Ecola state park, it's a very nice little park. $3 day use fee.

Canon Beach in the background there. Ooops, I still have my snowboard tag on my jacket.
Joe & Michelle at the view point. We saw some whales this time! Actually, we saw whale spouts, water plume when whale blow water through their blow hole. Michelle said she saw a tail. Oh well, at least we didn't have to go on a boat. The whales were pretty far out there, maybe a mile. Orcas were much more playful (San Juan Island.)

Cheese!!!
(A Wallace and Gromit reference if you don't get it.)
We got an Italian cheese, a French cheese, bread, pears, and an apple for a picnic lunch. They were delicious. We ate in the car, brrrr... it was pretty cold out.

Testing out my 12x zoom camera. Nice little water fall on the beach.
Little light house.