Portland / Vicki's

After Ashland we moved on to Portland to visit my life long friend Vicki and her family. We figured we had to incorporate civilization for Shannon and I had to get my fill of “Vicki Time”. Vicki is an awesome organizer and took very good care of us. She arranged Darren to get his allergy shots, we had our mail delivered there, and Shannon and I were able to get manicures and pedicures!! Life was good in Portland!! It was a lot of fun spending time with their kids and her son proposed marriage to Shannon. It was a very good visit. (Don’t get too excited everybody, her son is four years old.)

We were able to spend time with Vicki’s friend Dani who is from Austria. She made us home made authentic schnitzle . It was fantastic. Also, Vicki and Tom have been host parents for a 19 year old young man from Germany who is doing an apprenticeship with the company Tom works for. Darren had a great time harassing a 19 year old German and Shannon, Lauren, and Megan just plain enjoyed having a 19 year old German around!! Ha! Ha!

Unfortunately this is also where Shannon left us to fly back to college. Study hard, play hard, sweetie.

Thank you Vicki and Tom for letting us bug you for a few days. The visit was way too short, but a lot of fun.