I told you!

Of course, it MUST rain for the Rose festival. And they say it rains all the time in Seattle!!! I will admit, we have the exact same forecast for this weekend.....but Portland has bigger raindrops!

Ancestry.com

I have been spending a certain amount of time here looking up all sorts of things. Very addictive. Get just a little bit of information from a family member, like someone's birthplace, and all of a sudden you are finding all sorts of records and information about your ancestors. Sometimes I find their occupation listed (we have plumbers, farmers and even a fireman on a locomotive, as well as dry cleaner-owners, tailors and laundresses), sometimes the cause of death. Sometimes random things, like the fact that in 1947 Claudine Couch, my great-great-grandmother, went to Bermuda with her daughter at the age of 69. Just the two of them. Must have been the trip of a lifetime!

Come check it out! If you have info, I am happy to add it in, and if you want to add pictures to people, click on the link you were emailed and it will let you add stories and pictures on people. (Let me know if you did not get an email)

Fun in California

Look where I'm going tomorrow! I am in San Jose for an orthopedic nursing conference, and the convention center happens to be less than a block from the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts....and they are doing Beauty and the Beast! My classes end tomorrow around 4:30pm, and the show starts at 8:00pm. I got a cheap last minute ticket. Should be fun! I have always loved the music from that movie, so I am sure I will have a great time. A good way to spend my last evening in San Jose.

Because I think it is hilarious, and if I was a person who shoots milk out of their nose, I would have

Ethan and I on our sunset cruise

Hammock, dress, blanket and musician vendors on the beach

Blanket vendor and floral dress seller

Cut fruit guy and pork rind guy

The main building of the tequila distillary, and Ethan with the bottle we brought home with us

SOme of the traditional and modern devices used to extract the juices from the agave plant

After a hard day of zipping

Me rappelling down at the last platform

Agave fields near the ziplines

Traversing the platform before going on another zip

Weird montage sports setting on my camera....of Ethan zipping along

Me sailing past the cactuses

Ethan zipping along

Just about the cutest couple you will ever find. Whatever. We have fun together!

Ethan getting prepped for the ziplines by a very small woman

A very happy tissue flower from our maid

Yes, and they all managed to survive