We woke up yesterday, turned on the news and lo and behold, Portland government employees were being asked to come in to work. The roads were peaking out from under the snow (on TV anyway, not in McMinnville) so we thought, hey let's give our trip to Coos Bay a try. I knocked the ice and snow off our Escape and drove around McMinnville a while to check out the roads. I seemed to have enough traction so we packed up, jumped in the car and for Joellen's folks' house. Once we got to Amity the roads were starting to clear and by the time we got to Salem, there was no snow on the roads at all!
Anyway, here we are and it's far from a white Christmas here! But hey, we managed to pull off our planned trip down here and Joellen was getting really stir crazy cooped up in the house with Asher for the past week+. Joellen's sister Gnome (short for Naomi) and The Face (Short for 'Trace the Face') are on their way down and should be here in a couple hours. In the meantime, Jo and I plan on meeting up with her friend Tina and husband Eric for lunch.
So here's a 'Merry Christmas' wish going out from our family down in Coos Bay to all of you out there. Make the Yule Tide Gay Y'all :)
Anyway, here we are and it's far from a white Christmas here! But hey, we managed to pull off our planned trip down here and Joellen was getting really stir crazy cooped up in the house with Asher for the past week+. Joellen's sister Gnome (short for Naomi) and The Face (Short for 'Trace the Face') are on their way down and should be here in a couple hours. In the meantime, Jo and I plan on meeting up with her friend Tina and husband Eric for lunch.
So here's a 'Merry Christmas' wish going out from our family down in Coos Bay to all of you out there. Make the Yule Tide Gay Y'all :)
