Thanksgiving Break

So the start of our thanksgiving break started out well... frustrating.  I got the last few hours off of work so we could drive to Idaho Falls and catch our flight sunday evening.  We were supposed to leave at 6:00 so we had to be there about 4:30.  I rushed home and threw clothes in our suitcase and tried to get things ready to go.  Meanwhile, outside was a blizzard!  I was afraid we wouldn't be able to fly in it... sure enough as soon as we get to the airport we get a call that says our flight was canceled.  NNOOOOO!  They rescheduled us for 6:00 the next morning.

3:30 Monday morning we are up and ready to go.  We go our to the car, wait.. where's the car?!  It was buried under 2-3' of snow!  We each grab a snow shovel and dig a runway for the car.  45 minutes later we have pretty much shoveled the whole parking lot.  Bryan gets in and tries to drive out of the parking lot.  I am following behind him, and he starts to get stuck.  In my head I was thinking, "Heck no! I want to go home!  We are NOT getting stuck."  So I start pushing the car, and with my huge muscles (not) I pushed us out of the parking lot!!  We got to Oregon that morning and had a blast all week.  Here are a few pictures I had but Mom has more too.

Chris took me and Bryan on the MAX (train system in portland) to go shopping downtown.  We had a blast, and even got 1$ ice cream cones for Ben and Jerry's Birthday.  Mind you the high temperature for that day was only 24 degrees, but it was fun!

Checking out Portland from the bridge

Viking Bryan

They made a good team! 

Highlight of my trip, not only seeing family, but on Thanksgiving morning we were cooking and getting things ready.  A voice behind me and mom says, "hi Mom."  I knew in a second it was Doug but it scared mom half to death!  Doug suprised us and flew across the country to be with us for thanksgiving! He got leave from his ARMY base in Georgia and made it home!!!