A little closer....

Now we're in San Francisco-a tiny bit closer. Portland was great but the weather has finally gotten better now. The Sun shines here (unlike Portland) and it's warmer and dryer. We had a very excited shuttle driver in Portland and a jerk in SF. There also was an arrogant New Yorker talking aloud on her cell phone how horrible the people she was riding with were. The only good thing about that was that she was dropped off last and so had to suffer in the smelly van. Aaahhh well.....

Michael

I have to correct one thing Mike just said--officially we're in the Cupertino, not San Francisco. Laura has told me multiples times that people around here DO NOT think they're all one big happy family...if you live in San Jose, you live in San Jose, and you don't pretend to be the same thing.

But anyway, we're in California, which is all that matters. We had a good time in Portland...two really good, long hikes with Dad, a tour of the Lewis and Clark exhibit at the historical society and the beginning of wedding plans. I also promised Mom that I wouldn't mention that Dad had to change the toilet (really! The whole thing! And when he set it out on the curb for the trash pickup, the garbage men dropped the lid and there's now porcelain shattered all over the street :o)) or that we had an interesting lunch of organic hot dogs wrapped in brown rice tortillas (Mom has a lot of food allergies, so theoretically that was a good lunch for her, but YUCK!!!!!!)......but since I promised, I won't talk about those :o)

Plans for our time in the bay area include tickets to the San Francisco Orchestra and hopefully a hike in the Big Basin National Forest. Mike and I will also head into the city itself to see the sights. But for now a nap is calling my name, so more later!
~Ruth Ann