Road trip to Seaside, Oregon

5-7 Feb 2008

Cam and I celebrated our 1 year anniversary in St. Petersburg by going to an Indonesian restaurant. But we really celebrated by going down to Seaside Oregon and staying at a hotel on the beach. We had no idea that the wind and rain would be so powerful that it would throw the furniture around on the balcony like a bunch of matchsticks. We had a great time on this mini road trip. In Oregon we visited Seaside, Cannon Beach, Hug Point (almost got stuck in a raising tide), and Tillamook (home of Tillamook cheese and ice cream). It was fun to show Cam a little more of the United States – too bad we were having horrible rainy and windy weather and point break waves. Oh well! We had a wonderful time nonetheless. Oh, and Cam got a new camera for an early 30^th birthday present. He had fun taking all kinds of pictures (mostly of seagulls).

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St. Petersburg in Seattle

4 Feb 2008

Cam and I met up with some friends, Tim and Emily, that lived in St. Petersburg last year. They came to Russia to work as English teachers in a local university and ended up falling in love and they’re going to married within the next couple months. Emily went to university at Seattle Pacific University and Tim is originally from Vancouver, BC. They came down to Seattle to meet up with us and we took the Seattle Underground tour at Pioneer Square. The tour was a historical breeze through the origins of Seattle, and we actually went underground to were city was originally built. There was a huge fire in the late 1800s that demolished the original part of the city and they decided to rebuild, above the older buildings. Our tour guide was pretty funny and a real history buff.




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FINALLY a Winter Wonderland

28 Jan 2008

Within the first couple days of arriving back in Seattle we had a winter wonderland (something that we’ve been lacking in St. Petersburg). My parents live outside of the city in the country near the mountains and it was glorious to wake up to snow all over the property and frost and ice on the trees. It disappeared within a couple days :o(



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