Happy Valley, our new home. The pic above is of the flowering trees across the street from our house. Moving from Oregon city took me a little farther away from school, but brought my other roomies (Tressa, Rachel, and Casey) all closer to their work/schools. It was a strenuous and lengthy move, but all in all a good one. We've all been working really well together as roommates, and we all love our cute little house. When we moved in, the house needed a little sprucing up, mainly paint colors, but it was in pretty good condition as it was. A few weeks of busting butt and we're were pretty much unpacked.
Naturally, a house-warming party was in order. We invited all our friends and throughout the night we probably had over 20 people come in and out. Folks brought all kinds of yummy foods with them, and we roasted marshmallow peeps over the fire pit in the back yard. Some people tried playing Horseshoes but one of the dogs kept chasing them and almost getting himself hit in the noggin. We played a killer game of charades, some challenging and hysterical moments followed, including people acting out: unicorn, Benjamin Franklin, math, mermaid, rainbow, narwhal, super mario, titanic, ocean, wicked witch, and many more. People did surprisingly well. Towards the end of the night we came into the living room to find a few guests rallied around the TV. Casey's brother Jake had put in a movie: "My Fair Lady." Pretty funny scene, the lot of us watching an old musical, some singing along. It was a really fun evening!
Before people arrived, Casey took a video-tour of the house to show all yall "back home" our new place:
CLICK HERE FOR THE HOUSE TOUR VIDEO
The pic above was from a "failed" road trip we took out to Mt. Hood to do a hike. I call it failed because we set out to go hiking at a place Tressa and Rachel had been previously but we didn't know the gps would take us a different route than they had taken before and we were unable to find that spot. After an hour of looking roadside for other trails, we realized we had driven too close to the mountain and we were starting to see snow, which none of us were dressed properly for. We turned back for home, losing daylight, and settled for walking around a park/dogpark they visit regularly. The dogs got a good run around and at least it was a nice "Sunday" drive.
I combined the photos of the process of painting the house, the housewarming party, and the "failed" road trip in one album: CLICK HERE FOR PICS
There's also a video I took looking out the back window on the strangest weather day I've ever seen. First it was raining, then it stopped for a bit and was sunny and warm, they it began to hail, then rained, then snowed, then was sunny again. The video is of some of the hail: CLICK HERE FOR VIDEO
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