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Monday, July 23, 2012

Adventures in Oregon {2012 Edition}

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For those who have followed my blog the last couple years, you know that my family usually visits family in Oregon about once a year. Since I've grown up going to visit Aunt Carol and Uncle Terry, they're house is like a second home to me and my family. I've shared some pictures from our trips in 2010 and 2011, which you can check out if your interested.

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This year, we decided to go on the 4th of July. We left bright and earily on the 4th, around 5:30AM to be exact, so we had a lot of the day to relax. Most of us were tired by the time it got dark, partiularly myself, so we didn't say up to watch the fireworks. However, as the sun was setting, we had some fun with sparklers and some smoke bombs.

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One of Daniel's favorite things to do while we're at Aunt Carol's is to catch lizards.

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Recently Tiana and Alina made their own bows and arrows out of PVC pipe and brought them with us, since there's no shortage of space at Aunt Carol's.

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Uncle Terry.

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The weather was warm when we got there and just kept getting hotter by the day. On our last day there, it reached 90°F and I was melting! I don't do to well in the heat, so I was happy when after walking around town all afternoon, we found a water fountain at the shopping center that Tiana, Daniel, and I got wet it. It didn't take long before I was soaked, head to toe!

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Cactus look pretty cool.

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Some bright green grass under the shade of a giant tree on that 90°F day.

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After grabbing some frappuccinos in Starbucks in town, we went to this really neat candy shop that we had never been to before. They had the movie Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory playing in the back and had lots of fun and unique items and candies.
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Tiana bought this Star Wars: Episode IV tin poster at the candy shop. She's a huge Star Wars fanatic.

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4 comments:

  1. It was 103ºF here on the 4th of July! Talk about melting. :-)
    Great lizard shot!

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    1. Now that's hot! I'm used to temps up to the mid-seveties, so I start melting at anything above 80°F.

      Thank you, Kathryn! The lizard was still just long enough to get one shot, before he scattered.

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  2. Looks like so much fun and so many great pictures! It has been 106° almost every day this week here. HOT!!

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    1. Thank you, Rachel. We did have a fun time! I'm glad I don't live in an area with really hot weather; I don't think I'd survive! lol!

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