Thanksgiving in PDX

Last week, we headed down to Portland to spend Thanksgiving with KLC's family.  Aside from the regular 3-hour trip taking 5 hours -- thanks to holiday traffic and typical rain this time of year -- we had a really good time.

After gorging ourselves all day on Thursday, we took the twins to the Macy's parade in downtown Portland.  This version of the Macy's parade doesn't have giant floating Sponge Bobs or anything like that, but they do have lots of middle school and high school bands playing Christmas carols.  And, most importantly if you are 4 years old, Santa is on a giant float at the end.  The twins couldn't have been happier.

Woefully Behind Schedule

This should teach me a lesson in trying to do things after the fact.  I had some grand plans to keep a detailed account of our trip to China.  Things got slightly derailed when the Chinese government wouldn't let me get onto blogspot.  Since then, I've been meaning to come back and finish my account, but things have been more hectic than usual.  With the holidays coming up, I want to start to blogging about things happening right now.

So that means I'm going to wrap up the China account by saying go and look at KLC's blog -- http://hootnhowl.blogspot.com/2011/11/china.html -- for all of her pictures!  (This is a bit of a cop out, but I can live with myself.)  I will say that I strongly encourage anyone who has not been to China or Asia for that matter to go if possible.  It's an incredible experience, even if it's not the most relaxing trip much of the time.

Whew.  Now that I don't feel a nagging feeling about that, I can focus again on updating current things.  We are off to Portland next week for Thanksgiving to visit with KLC's family.  I can't believe it's already the holiday season ...