Even rodents are getting rich these days! WTF?!?! If I was one of those beavers, I’d have hidden the cash better. At least buy a better dam! Damn.

Today was my much anticipated return to Oregon! I’m so glad to be home!

Here’s the Denver airport. They have a Quizno’s with a bar attached to it, so you can get a sub sandwich and a beer.

Walking down the hamster tunnel to the plane.

Much to my dismay, I got the very far corner seat in the very last row on the plane.

It took nearly 13 hours for me to get from Tampa to Portland, but it was worth it! To feel the 40-something weather, to see the gorgeous fall leaves everywhere, to smell the sweet air in Lake Oswego, to be with Codi again – 13 hours was nothing.

CULTURE:

Our favorite restaurant in Lake O. Mmmmm! Cozy dining, excellent menu, super friendly service, hip design, great ownership, excellent location on the lake shore, amazing seafood dishes and Osso Buco. Have breakfast, lunch or dinner here and you will find yourself with a new favorite restaurant.

VULTURE:

One of two mexican restaurants Codi and I used to eat at while in Florida. Ugh. Hard to believe it’s true…



Fondest memory of this restaurant: Codi and I sat in a booth next to a woman who kept telling her daughter this wild story of how the FBI and CIA kidnapped and brainwashed her, and how they could now read her brain waves from remote locations – and that everyone in the restaurant could possibly be FBI agents after her. That and the open garbage bins behind the kitchen in 90 degree weather. Gaaag.

While waiting for Verizon to show up for an install, I stood on a street corner on the lookout for the Verizon guy. In a very short period of time, I witnessed THREE auto accidents – one of which was caused by a guy backing his truck out of the middle of the intersection, hitting the car behind him, despite the hitee’s desperate horn blowing. In addition to the three accidents, no less than 6 ambulances have gone by, sirens wailing. Yikes!