Friday

Wednesday at Kaleidoscope:

Lucy's off work today and we're threatening to go on the bikes - but it's going to be another hot one, so we need to be careful.

This morning, we're trying to figure out why Blogspot is different on Lucy's PC from what it is at home - we can't seem to copy and paste, nor move text nor photos around - strange.

Thursday

What do I have to say about today? Not a lot. Having dragged the boys from their beloved home yesterday, Jo and I thought it was only fair that we should let them stay put today. Of course, it helped that it was the 1st round of the Open - even if it was 3 hours' delayed transmission on the West Coast.

So we just chilled - read our books, jumped in the pool (me - not the boys for a change, and certainly not Jo). We had watched a film on my laptop last night - Sweeney Todd - the Musical, with Johnny Depp - much better than it promised or the reviews had said about it. It was pretty late by the time we stopped watching it, so we weren't exactly bursting with energy anyway today.

Jo made the tea - spag bog - but with buffalo meat!

Tomorrow, we might cycle downtown - if we get away early enough and it's not too hot.

Getting hotter

The thermometer crept over the 100F mark today - but we spent most of the day down in Medford shopping. Jo and I spent $100 in Barnes & Noble buying books to read on our holiday!!!

The boys were bribed with a small toy treat at Toys R Us and I bought a new pair of glasses, which I have to pick up on our way back from Salt Lake City on our way north to Portland and home.

We did manage lunch at one of our favourite pizza bars - Kaleidoscope. Here's Lucy and the boys:

Grants Pass babysitters

Jo and I had our first full day alone with the boys yesterday - and we did nothing! That's the way the boys like it - they're definitely homebirds - and it suited us as well, just chilling out. I realised I hadn't even taken any photos since we arrived in Grants Pass, so here's one taken after Lucy and Scott came home from work yesterday:

What are we planning for today? Similar, but we will have to do some shopping - that will be fun, getting Cade and Braeden prised away from the TV, Wii and their toys.

Portland south to Grants Pass

One more photo from our walk round Portland on Thursday afternoon - this is me in Pioneer Square in front of the Courthouse:


On Friday morning, a rare sight - Jo in the hotel pool:




After a walk to China Town, we had lunch at one of Portland's dining institutions - Dan and Louis' Oyster bar, after which we foolishly hired one of the family bikes and worked our way round a loop crossing two bridges, with a couple of fairly benign climbs, which were incredibly hard work on this machine - of course it would have helped if all 4 adults had been making an effort:


On Saturday after breakfast, we headed south and stopped at Roseberg for lunch - see Facebook for photo. Scott and I then stopped off at Myrtle Creek for 18 holes before heading back to GP.

My exertions of the last few weeks, combined with the travel and the disturbed sleep pattern, finally hit me and I sloped off to bed at 8:30 pm, not rising until 9:30 am the following morning - something I haven't done for years. Sunday was then just a lazy day, chilling out until late afternoon when Jo and I walked to Albertson's to get a few groceries.

Got to go - Scott's on the BBQ - spare ribs tonight!

Grants Pass - and still some connection issues

Trying to figure out what's wrong with my settings in Outlook that won't let me send e-mails from USA this year - tried every combination and failed so far - have referred to our IT people - very frustrating - so don't expect too many e-mails until this matter is resolved!