The Gorge

Columbia River Gorge

I-84 east of Portland, Oregon...these waterfalls were everywhere!

So...we made it to lovely Vancouver on Sunday afternoon at 4pm, 3pm local time. We left Spokane around 9:30am, stopped briefly in Kennewick, and enjoyed the MOST BEAUTIFUL drive down I-84 along the Columbia River. Oh, my, it was beautiful! Seriously, in the Top 5 most beautiful places I have ever seen. It was raining really hard for our first three days in Washington State, so we didn't get any good pictures of the river Gorge, but I took a few from the car as we drove.

The Drews were still at church when we arrived, so we came in and straightened up the (mostly empty) house and inflated our airbeds. We had a really fun reunion and went out to Baja Fresh for Sunday dinner. It was exciting to bed down and be ready for the movers at 8am on Monday & Tuesday. We worked really hard and enthusiastically on Monday, and more hard and LESS enthusiastically on Tuesday to get Mom and Mark moved in to their new house. This house is HALF the size of their Missouri home, which is a good thing, but Mom is continually surprised by how little room she has. It will take some time to get all settled, but it has been fun. The pine trees are so tall, the woods are thick and pretty, and Mom's house faces a tiny farm with chickens and little goats, with lots of green grass and big trees--it's really beautiful. The neighborhood borders a rural area, a lot like where they lived in Missouri. The kids are having a great time riding scooters and bikes around the wooded circle. There are lots of nice stores and restaurants nearby.

I will post more photos ASAP...tomorrow (Wednesday) is Addie's 6th Birthday. Adios...