Ditched in the Malibu!!

It was a Malibu or a mini-van.  However, this is actually a nice car and has that normal European "turns off when you are stopped at a light to lower emissions a huge amount and in America we are FINALLY figuring this shit out" feature.

On our way!

On the plane, enjoying a Furious, waiting to take off. 

Then we watched "Wonder Woman" during the flight!  Or should I say...Chris did.  I promptly passed out after about 25 minutes.  He said it was really good. 

We were on the right side of the plane this time - last year we were on the left and had amazing views of Mt. Hood when we were landing.  This time, we got beautiful views of the mountains in Washington on our descent.  I believe the first picture is Mt. Rainier in the back and Mt. Adams up front, and the second picture is Mt. Saint Helens.

What a lovely welcome as we landed! 

PDX 2017

On our way!  Another anniversary trip to Portland. filled with beer, wine, food, and oh, being away from work!

Hopefully my blog skills will be better than they were in Colorado.

Colorado, belated...

Well here's a rundown of what we did in Colorado

Got in Thursday night... drank.

Friday we went to the Vail Oktoberfest and walked around and drank and it was super fun and a super beautiful day.

Went out for dinner Friday night and had an awesome time, and awesome drinks.

Saturday was all about being on the mountain and seeing Elvis Costello perform.   It was 52 degrees with a 30 mile an hour wind on the mountain so we were freezing until of course I stood up on a picnic table and danced for the last hour of the concert. And drank.

Out to dinner again Saturday night.  Drank.

Sunday was lucky enough to have brunch with Sam. And then we headed to the airport.

The End.

Colorado here we come!!

Waiting for our flight out to Colorado to see Nan and Jon and fam. 

Much needed trip, we haven't flown anywhere in 11 weeks!!

Yeah yeah.  First world problems.

Oh, and showing a little Insight pride.  You would see the picture if the janky bullshit Blogger app actually worked.

So long Rhode Island...

It's 11:36 PM, and we need to get up at 2:30 AM so that we can get packed, head out and drive to Boston to the airport, return the rental car, and somehow not fall asleep along the way to catch our early flight home.

This trip has been so fun - oysters, lobstah, beer, friends and their lovely family, and a great little getaway.  And we added Rhode Island and Connecticut to our list of states!

Such a fun weekend - one more day...then back to reality.

Much love to everyone!

P&C

Fireworks in East Greenwich!

These Rhode Islanders know how to do fireworks right.  Right on the beach.  40 feet away.  It was frightening.  And wicked awesome.

Jon photo bombed.  I lit a sparkler and tried not to burn the kids' faces off (or my own), we had a bottle of Sutter Home (I'm not sure how that happened), and we spent an amazing 4th of July weekend with some pretty amazing and kind folks.

Fantastic.