Monday, February 18, 2008

What To Do With Brother Who Is Unsociable Long weekend!!

Well Our long weekend is drawing to a close, so here's What Happened!

Here are the activities of our weekend

Here is Thursday's dinner - pork chops and orecchiette pasta with broccoli. I think ill start calling orecchiette Mr Hat pasta since it's looks like a hat

Dinner on Thursday was pork and broccoli with pasta




Friday We Went out for Our Valentine's date at Meriwether's in the northwest . Meriwether's has Their own farm in Portland. They Spent MOST of the last year building it up, and They Also Their smoke meats at the farm as well. Check out the website, very cool!

We left the day of San Valentin on Friday CHTMsteak and I had a bird called 'quail' in English. For dessert we had a flourless chocolate cake .. hmmm ... Speaking of chocolate ... Carlos got me a whole bouquet of Chocolate Covered Strawberries! My belt is today feeling a bit Tighter Than it did last week .... But strawberries Are healthy so its all good, right?

Speaking of chocolate .. Carlos gave me a banner under strawberry chocolate!! My belt is tighter than last week .. but strawberries are healthy, so it's okay, right?





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Saturday we ran errands, did Our grocery shopping, relaxing and did Some Before we headed out to see the opera Rodelinda. We Went To
Red Star Tavern for dinner b efor the show. I Had Their signature cocktail is a raspberry flavored Which vodka based drink. Very nice:) They Have That has an interesting menu Several interesting side dishes - the steak you eat potatoes whipped with the Expected But a lot of the dishes Have beans, sweet potato, lentils or as the side. On Saturday we went shopping and rest before heading out to see the opera Rodelinda. We went to Red Star Tavern

before the operation. Take the house drink with raspberry vodka. Sunday afternoon we headed out to Mt Hood for Some afternoon snowshoeing. The weather here this weekend WAS totally amazing, We Had clear views all the way out to hood. Here Are some views out of the car as we where driving over the Marquam bridge CHTMLXng my shoes

Trillium Lake in the parking lot was full. We saw many people making snowshoeing and skiing. Someone with a long torso giant took this picture of me.




We saw eleven birds These Several of the crowds thinned out a bit. I dont know What Kind They Are But last time we where at trillium lake They ate out of Carlos' hand. They Are A Variety of bird very tame and when to we stopped to take this pic Several meat over to us (expecting food i assume)

saw many birds. Not as they are called but the last time we came here the birds ate from the hand of Carlos!



kindly Another couple hiking Along Offer to Take Ourpic in front of Mt Hood.

Another couple took this picture of us in front of Mt Hood



There Were Some vacation cabins for rent Along the trail. Were The Entrance around the back:) Several Families Seem To Be renting the cabins for the long weekend There are some rental houses on the road. Entries are behind the house. Many families were renting the cottage for the weekend



Finally we got to the lake. Heres a pic of me in front of Mt Hood Trillium Lake &
Finally we reached the lake. Here is a picture of me facing the lake and Mt Hood Trillium




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Check out this cool pic of Mt Hood with the pink "alpine-glow" from the setting sun
See this photo of Mt Hood at Sunset




On our way back to Portland we stopped at Calamity Jane's Hamburger Parlour to replace All Those calories we burned. We got burgers and shakes .. mmm ..
dined at the restaurant Calamity Jane's burgers and shakes .. hmmmm .. And finally today Mostly we just Stayed around the house. We Took Advantage of the beautiful weather Some yardwork to do, check out this action shot of Carlos!

finally stayed home today. We work a little bit out, Here's a photo of Carlos



Thats it for Our long weekend.

That's it for our long weekend.

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