So I thought I would post, not that I really have that much to say but I realized it's been a long time. We're still in OR and I have to admit it hasn't been our favorite place, I don't know if it's just the places we've lived or the whole state but we are very excited to leave. Don't get me wrong there are some things that are absolutely great... it is beautiful, we live in like a bowl of mountains surrounded on all sides and it's green every where, huge trees and when you go outside it smells like the forest and for me that reminds me of my childhood when we would go camping, and despite what everyone told us before moving here... no snow, so I love that! We've also made great friends here that have taught us some great new games... so watch out everyone you will be forced to play with us when we get back! And Travis loves his job, they do a lot of fun things to keep everyone happy like trivia and games and walks and contests, he loves it! He works about 11 hours a day though so it's starting to get old but he's getting so much experience and he's finding that he's really good at it and enjoys it so that's good cause if he needed to switch majors now I think I would kill myself! So for the reasons why we can't wait to leave... TOO MUCH RAIN! I never thought I would say that but we are both sick of it! Also because it's so moist mold grows every where, I think I might be getting mold poisoning as we speak! But mostly we've decided from now on we will never live in an apartment that isn't in a complex again! Our first place here, well the nicest thing I can say about it is it was falling apart, aside from having to mop up our own shower water every time after we showered, the floors were caving in and when we moved in it was invested with spiders and other things. But we were going to tough it out until they figured out that to fix the shower they would have to pretty much tear the whole place apart. So we moved into a basement apartment while a huge step up from the first place still has some issues, it smells and I've tried everything but it smells like a basement not just that like a wet basement, I hate it! And the ceiling is low, meaning Travis being only 6ft can literally walk into the lights, the only heat we have are these little space heaters that are mounted on the walls that really don't help unless you stand right in front of them! And to top it all off the toilet and the shower drains are connected some how and every time you flush if you don't make sure the toilet doesn't keep running it will over flow and then cause the shower to over flow, it's not clogged it just keeps running, so one night lets just say it just kept of running until the whole bathroom and the hall way were about an inch deep in water, we call up stairs tell the owner whats happening she comes down to help clean it up and tells us like it's totally normal, that to fix it all you have to do is plunge the shower drain! At that moment I thought I had died and gone to hill billy hell! The most annoying thing is she didn't find it important enough to tell us when we moved in, also when told that our kitchen sink won't stop clogging no matter how much draino we use on it she says " ours does that too, we just use paper plates"!!!!! So I haven't really been able to cook anything real cause we have no way to do dishes, we've been living off of hot pockets, pot pies and frozen meals, anything that causes no dishes. So although the experience has been totally worth it, this really was the best internship opportunity Travis could have asked for, we are very excited to get back into a fully working apartment and to see our friends again, two of which are about to pop!
We had 3 pies, 1 trifle and 1 chocolate cake, plus ice cream! Thankfully the Jardines also came over so we had more people to eat it all!
This is Travis holding (and totally falling for) Miss Lillian Jardine, what can I say he has a thing for girls!
