happy belated thanksgiving

so the near death accident on the way home from portland last sunday made me less than enthusiastic to post an update on our trip. but, a week later it doesn't feel so scary anymore (even though i am now officially a TERRIBLE passenger in the car) so: thanksgiving update!

mom and mark came to visit the saturday before t-day. we picked them up in spokane, and did some spokane touristy stuff including:

the weird park on the river, which in the summer is probably hopping and in the winter holds an ice rink and this weird thing overhead--


the spokane river and the bridge where what'shisface from smoke signals throws his fathers ashes at the end of the film--



we also went to a western wear store (corral west ranch wear, which jeff kept calling cornell west ranch wear). mom bought some red cowboy boots. jeff dressed up for us:

he actually bought the shirt, which is quite lovely.

we then spent the next few days bumming around pullman. went to wawawai park on the snake river, quite pretty (saw COUGAR tracks there---go cougs!):


we did other stuff too. i don't remember anymore, but i'm sure it was good.

on wednesday we drove to eugene, or to visit adam and anne. the drive was mostly ok but portland traffic STUNK and we got stuck there for about 2 hours which was really a drag. took us about 10 hours to get from pullman to eugene. went out to dinner that night and then did the whole thanksgiving thing on thursday as evidenced by this:




friday we bummed around eugene and jeff got a tattoo:


saturday we all headed to portland to drop off mark and mom at the airport. adam, anne, jeff and i spent afternoon bumming around:

mt. hood came out (look to the left of downtown):

then, since anne caught adam's cold (which jeff now has) those losers went back to eugene. jeff and i had yummy moroccan (sp?) dinner.

sunday we headed back to pullman. snowstorm in the gorge, but really really beautiful (and we were post storm so visibility good, roads so so). once we got out of the gorge it was pretty much fine:


BUT, about 10 miles out of the tri-cities we hit a slush pile going aobut 65 mph. we lost control, went off road, up imbankment, sideways back into road (at which point i pretty much figured i was going to get hit by a semi and die) and then back onto side of road/ditch. somehow we didn't die. we lost part of the front bumper and our lisence plate and now our car alarm goes of randomly, but other than that we're ok. it really sucked though. the rest of the drive was pretty much a blur. all those years in michigan w/ no accidents, 4 months in washington state and accident. what the hell.

in any case, that was our thanksgiving. enjoy.

anne got adam's cold (which jeff now has) and so those losers went back to eugene.