Quick! Before School Starts!

On Monday we start our 3L year (i.e. our LAST year of school). It is exciting to near the finish, but that doesn't mean we are not a little grumpy about saying goodbye to the summer! :) Here are a few pictures from our last bits of summer fun!


A picture from Sokol Blosser, one of the vineyards just outside of Portland. The vineyards are all beautiful, and most have picnic areas, so you can pack a lunch, buy a bottle of wine when you get there and just enjoy the pretty views.


This is from the rooftop bar at the Hotel Oregon, the city of McMinnville is the home town of the "Trent" UFO sightings from the 1950s, thus the UFO statue on the roof. With this unique history (and already kooky owners of the McMenamins hotels and bars) the Hotel Oregon has an annual UFO festival, but we were at the hotel on a normal day -- so we only spotted a few UFO statutes and alien pictures around the grounds, like the silly picture below.




Next stop in McMinnville was the Evergreen Air Museum -- the new Northwest home of the Spruce Goose. A few pictures below show us in trying to provide a sense of scale of the Spruce Goose and a Titan rocket base.