Last night, the family and I planned to do something along the lines of a last-amazing-adventure before 4th of July and the end of my daddy leave. Betty is sick, so it would have been just Edgar, Sabrina, and myself.
Plan A was a trip to Mt. St. Helens. Found out this morning that there was a landslide a month or so ago that has closed the main road up to the mountain.
No problem. Let's come up with a Plan B.
We can use our zoo membership for reciprocal admission at the Oregon Historical Society Museum in downtown Portland. That opens at 10, so we can sleep in a little later. Maybe we can do some other fun portland things like get voodoo donuts and putt-putt at glowing greens and maybe lunch at a food cart.
Oh, Betty is still very sick? Her ocular herpes flared up again (like it does every 18 months or so) and she needs a new prescription? OK, we can wait until we get Betty her prescription before we leave for the museum.
What? Sabrina has an orthodontist appointment at 1:30 today? How did we not know? OK, maybe we do this after her appointment.
Well, the appointment is done and it's 3:30. The museum closes at 5, so that's out of the picture. Why don't we go to Glowing Greens later after dinner and let Sabrina and mom go shopping for cute 4th of July clothes?
So, had a lovely relaxing time in the hammock and finished my book.
After dinner, I checked out the website for Glowing Greens. What? They close at 6 PM? Whyyy?
OK. change of plans. There's a similar putt-putt place in Vancouver. We can go out for ice cream afterwards. Wait, their last mini-golf tee time is 6:10? That's in 10 minutes!
OK. What are we on? Plan F? Come with me, kids.
So, we grabbed some Burger King ice cream, fries, and (nasty stale) mozzarella sticks and headed for the PDX runway. Somehow we managed to get there during a lull-- hardly any planes landing or taking off. After a while, things picked up, but it was mostly boring-- the biggest planes were the furthest away. It was not amazing like this or this.
Then, we headed up to Rocky Butte, one of my favorite places in Portland. There, we admired the view, played frisbee on top of an active volcano, and watched the sunset.
Home (Vancouver WA) from Rocky Butte. Also pictured, Mt. St. Helens (Plan A) and at the far left on the horizon, Mt. Rainier-- also just barely visible from our fire lookout a few days ago.
So this couple is in all my sunset pictures. That's not creepy.
So, for Plan F, that wasn't bad. While we were at Rocky Butte, we got a message from Jen that they were having a power outage.
...and making the best of it by playing Battleship.
We got home just as things were getting dark, and scurried around the house finding flashlights and a propane lantern. We got all set up for a game night:
Jen taught Betty chess. Edgar advised. Sabrina and I played Fox in the Forest. Just as always happens, 10 minutes into our games, the power came back on. Oh well. It was a fun night.
I got to put Ida down, and now it's bedtime for me, too.
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