Biggest Full Moon of the Year

I just saw an article on Yahoo that stated that tonight will be the biggest full moon of the year. Just thought I'd mention it. I'm a real sucker when it comes to that sort of thing. Here's the article link if anyone is interested. http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20081211/sc_space/yearsbiggestfullmoonfridaynight

Classic Movies

Most people that know me know that I love the old classic movies.

Next month on TCM they are going to show Family Classics on each Sunday.

Here is the link to the schedule if anyone else is interested. http://www.tcm.com/2008/tcmpresents/index.jsp

They have some of my favorites on the schedule. Swiss Family Robinson, The Parent Trap, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, The Apple Dumpling Gang, The Love Bug, etc.

UNO Party

I tried to get people together to have an UNO Party last night. It didn't quite turn out the way that I planned. We planned one hand of UNO and then switched to Guitar Hero World Tour and then Samba De Amigo. The one hand of UNO seemed to go on forever. (didn't take long to remind us why we don't play UNO more often)

Disney on Ice

Last week I managed to get tickets to Disney on Ice. Me and Missy took Jake and Zoe. They loved it.

Jake's current favorite seems to be Woody and Buzz Lightyear. He got so excited when they came out on the ice.

Zoe's favorites of course. They had all the princesses except for Sleeping Beauty. We thought that was a bit weird. They had Cinderella, Belle, Snow White, Mulan, Ariel, and even Pocahontas but now Aurora.

The original disney character are still my favorite. I love Goofy and Chip and Dale.

They did a whole "It's a Small World" number.

The toy soldier were pretty impressive too.

Dad Update

First of all, I think I might owe a few apologies to some of my friends with blogs. I know I've teased a few of you about not regularly updating. Now that I have created my own, I can see just how hard it is to keep updating.

Update on my dad: He had open heart surgery last Thurs to repair a faulty valve. They were able to make the repair. It took about 5 hours for the surgery. He is recovering quickly. They released him from the hospital this morning. He is home and trying to take it easy.

Misc. Animal Pictures from our trip

The above bird tried to steal my lunch! I finally gave up and threw him a piece of bread. He would fly in and try to haul off as many pieces as he could before he would fly off. He kept coming back til it was all gone.

We found these little chipmunks all over the place at Crater Lake National Park

I don't know which one was "Chip" and which one was "Dale" though.

Misc. Animal Pictures from our trip

On the various trails to the lighthouses we ran in to a lot of these little caterpillers. They were everywhere.

There were warning signs all over the redwoods regarding the "Wild Elk."

They didn't look to dangerous to me.

Multnomah Falls - Near Portland

Multnomah Falls - Near Portland. We took the hike up to the bridge. It seemed to be straight up but the view was awesome. I can't believe I actually leaned over the edge of that bridge to take a picture.

View looking up from the bridge

The view looking straight down from the bridge.

Wahkeena Falls - Near Portland OR

It was hard to get this falls all in one picture.

We hiked up to the first lookout point for this picture. About a 1/2 mile up. It was hard to get a picture from the bridge because of the mist coming off of the falls.

The bottom portion of the falls as it turns into a river.

More lighthouses

This is the functioning light house North Head at Cape Disappointment.

This one is located at Cape Disappointment. It actually is not a functioning lighthouse. It couldn't be seen so they built a replacement around the corner. The hike up to this lighthouse may have been a bit more dangerous that we anticipated. The path was really muddy and we kept seeing the following warning signs.

Makes you a little nervous.

Heceta Head Lighthouse- Florence OR

Got the picture from the internet - mine didn't turn out that great. This one Tillamook Head is actually nicknamed Terrible Tilly

Yaquina Bay Lighthouse - Newport OR

Yaquina Head Lighthouse - in Newport OR

Day 8 of OR/CA Trip - Seaside

Here is a picture of the view from the balcony of our room. It was cool to see fishermen going up and down the river right outside the hotel.

Downtown Seaside - lots of shops that lead all the way to the beach



All of the lamp posts in the area have these starfish on them. They are made out of lights. It makes the street light up at night.

Cannon Beach

Cannon Beach, I love this beach. We walked down to haystack rock. Unfortunately, it was high tide so we couldn't get out to the rock. It's a beautiful beach.

Tillamook

We stopped at the cheese factories in Tillamook today and took the self guided tours. Kind of interesting and the free samples were pretty good.

They had a Tillamook Ice Cream parlor in the cheese factory. The Ice Cream was very good.

This is what they called a sampler at the ice cream counter. That's more ice cream than I could eat in a week. I settled for a single scoop sundae but the sampler sure did look good.

This factory was more of a petting zoo. It was kind of weird. They had everything there from an Emu to a peacok.

Lighthouses

Tillamook Rock lighthouse at Cannon Beach

This lighthouse is at Cape Meares near Tillamook