Apartment Hunting

Amazing Thai food at PokPok

Wind energy is BIG in the Gorge

Andrea's Blackberry came in handy for navigating to dinner. And, check out that funky bedspread.

Chili listened at the door all night long, ever vigilant

We roadtripped out to the Portland area over the weekend in hopes of finding an apartment. This time we took the Chi with which unfortunately caused us to become very sleep deprived. Chili has not had much experience staying in hotels....our cheap hotel had paper thin walls along with an adjoining room (where you could hear the distinct sound of a beer opening) causing her to be ever vigilant which meant little sleep for us. But we pressed on! We looked at 6 apartments total, 3 of which were in Beaverton which I have decided is hell personified. We lucked out on the final apartment on our list and will have a protected woodland right outside our balcony. Kadie is very excited for all the birding opportunities!

To celebrate finding a new abode, we went out to dinner at Pok Pok with Kadie's brother Micha. This was quite possibly the best Thai food I have ever had and I really enjoyed the beer from Laos.

After another night of little sleep (the Chi ever so vigilant) we grabbed some free coffee from out cheap motel. It was horrible, however Kadie observed "it's not horrible, it's just not good". Indeed. Desperate to get a good night's sleep we traveled away from Portland up the Columbia river gorge to find a place to camp. Along the way we hiked up to several beautiful waterfalls and soaked up all the greenery. We crashed in the tent around 6pm and slept a good 13 hours. Chili is very used to camping and backpacking so she shelved the vigilance and konked out too. It was good.