Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Back to reality

Hi,
Well, we are back to the reality of winter in Central Oregon after a great time of sunshine and warm sand. We were lucky to have great weather while we were there and lots of great food and fun. Lee was out fishing every morning off the bank. Fishing was great catching was slow. He did go out in the ocean and catch dinner for us and others on the boat one day. We saw lots of whales the day we went snorkeling. I did a little bargaining on the beach for a few trinkets. Lee and I did kayaked and enjoyed being out on the water. Puerto Vallarta is really growing, more hotels every time we come. We were suppose to get home on Friday evening at midnight but when we got to Seattle the Redmond airport was closed due to freezing fog so we spent the night in Seattle expecting to get up in the morning and catch the afternoon or evening flight to Redmond but again, the airport was closed due to weather. We were fortunate enough to get the plane to Portland on Sat late afternoon and there along with 4 other people we rented a car and drove home. Needless to say it was nice to finally get home. We are very lucky I guess because this is the first time this has every happened to us due to weather. We went from 82 degree weather to about 18 degrees burrrrr!
Below are a few pictures from the trip and our winter weather.
Lee and myself on our way to snorkel

The view from the boat of Pueto Vallarta

Young girls bargining with me for bracelets

Sailboat coming into the harbor

This is the deer picture that I lost from the last post. Deer in Sam's backyard.

This is one of our resident deer on the morning we got home looking for something to eat after the silver thaw.

Thursday, January 8, 2009

Sunshine and Blue Sky!!!

Hi Everyone,
Sunshine and blue sky says it all!!! We are in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico and taking a break from the weather up north. Saturday morning when we left Prineville it was 22 degrees and I was wearing summer clothes. Needless to say, I about froze my buns off. I have been in shorts since we arrived and it is wonderful. Lee has hardly moved his buns off the warm sand need I say more. Our friend Dan Ball is down here also and he and Lee may go out fishing later this week. The fishing has been a little slow but yesterday they came in with lots of sierra. Later next week Lee and I are going to go out snorkeling and kayaking for the day on a tour boat. That will be my big trip down here except for shopping.
We went out to eat at PiPis on Sunday and I am still full. I just love the food down here and my
waist will probably show it by next week when we return home.
Porter, Sam and Shannon's son is now crawling. We will be keeping Shannon busy from now on.
I don't know if I mentioned it but Sam and Shannon are expecting in June. Of course we can hardly wait.!!
Dane, Clint and Tanya's son is also crawling like mad and just had tubes put in both ears. We hope this will help him with his ear infections.
Well, that's about all for now. I will post some pictures when we get back home (providing that we take any)
Sheri and Lee