Portland/Vancouver

A small nap in the car

Salmon Spotting

Dina and Fiona on Safari

Being a bear

One for Nanna Jane

We had a wonderful time in Portland staying with our friend Dina and her lovely dog Georgia. Visited the Oregon Zoo, ate sushi...AND ethiopian food, went to Powells books Which was a fantastic book store that had almost every book in print (I think).

We were expecting inclement weather so we had lots of rain gear and layers with us but the first two days were mixed sun and cloud for our wanderings around Dina's neighbourhod in Vancouver Washington. Fiona was a great traveler with our solo train ride from Albany to Portland and then we took a taxi across the Columbia River, Fiona was nap free for the whole weekend which meat that there was not always sweet and loving behaviour but there were no tantrums that would have had us ejected from either state.

Our last day up north was quite rainy but fiona agreed to wear her rain coat with no trouble which was nice. As a child born in drought she has had little call for outerwear in her life so this was fretful for me, "please wear this...you'll be soaked" "you need a coat on" "you must wear boots."

Part of our plan on return from Portland to Corvallis was to go to the snow today, as with the winter olympics our plans for winter would need to have helicopters and trucks bring in snow from afar, so instead we will settle for a swim at the local pool and save our snow day for later in the month in the Sierras.

We are staung with our friends Brian and Liv and Lyle for another day or so and then will roll on back to California.

Life is Good.
Love
Louise