Last week Leven and I flew to Canby, Oregon to visit his best friend from high school. Chris and his family were awesome! We both said it was one of our favorite vacations. Everyday they had a different tour waiting for us. This is Stephanie, Payton, Kaelynn and Chris Miller
-The first night we were there Chris cooked ribs and they talked about old memories until bedtime!- Next day we went skiing up on Mt. Hood. Now this was an experience and one we all three will never forget. Leven has NEVER been skiing before. I have been twice, but the last time was 9 years ago. So we get all our gear on and head out on the snow. (It was sooooooooooo pretty that day!) If you have ever walked in snow boots then you understand. If not, well maybe someday you will. But it's not easy at all. We finally get Leven locked in his ski's and we get on the ski lift. Chris thought that the lift we got on would take us up a little ways and drop us off and then if you wanted you could catch another one up there to take you on to the top. Well, he was wrong! We kept going up and up and up and I started freaking out a little I can only imagine what Leven was thinking. When we finally made it to the top we were trying to tell Leven how to get off the lift. To the right was a drop off, cliff you can say, and to the left was a hard turn down a hill. We did NOT want to go off to the right for sure. Leven started flippin out and before you knew it he was down. And he was pissed! He was so mad at Chris for bringing him all the way to the top not knowing how to ski. And there was really no way of teaching him b/c there were no small hills. Every hill we went down was straight down. So needless to say, after Leven fell oh about 10 times he finally said enough is enough and started walking. I really don't blame him. It took us over and hour to get down and he was shaking when he finally sat down. He was sooooooo weak and by this time we were all sweating! He tried to keep a good attitude about it all. So Chris and I went back and did some more skiing. I don't think he will ever try and ski again after this trip. I took some really good pictures at least! 
-That night we went to a local bar and watched Oregon and Oregon State play against each other for the Rose Bowl.-The following day they took us to Silver Creek Falls. This was one of my favorite places. It was an acutal rainforest, just not tropical! We saw about 3 waterfalls that day and did lots of hiking!
B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L!!!
-Friday night we went into Portland and had dinner on the 30th floor of a really cool happening restaurant. We had a table right next to the window so we could see all of Portland at night. Very cool and the food was delicious! After dinner we went and watched their cousin play in a playoff football game downtown Portland! The winners would advance to state. His team lost! But still pretty cool!-Saturday we got up and it was 22 degrees outside and we were headed to the beach, West Coach Beach that is! All the rocks and cliffs were so different than any other beach we had ever gone too. We got tons off good pictures this day as well.
We loved every minute on this trip and we thank the Millers for being such good hosts! I hope to go back soon one day!
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I am crackin' up at the picture of Leven on his face! haha I can only imagine the words and anger getting down that hill! I did the same thing (but I wasn't on a black!! I just couldn't figure out how to get my boot locked into the ski) Walking all the way down the hill in those AWFUL snow boots makes for a bad skiing experience. Maybe he should try snowboarding. Kent likes that a LOT better... enjoyed looking at your pictures- they were great!
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