A few things have happened the last few weeks. Last, last weekend (Friday, May 29 to Monday, June 10, 2015), Anson and I went up to Portland for a mini vacation. I had planned this before my parents wanted to go to Hawaii. We used our weekend pretty well. It was actually hotter than expected and only rained on the last day (which we mostly avoided). In a nut shell, on Friday, Jo-Ann brought us to SJ Airport, the flight was about 1 \u00bd hours, we hiked Forest Park, ate lunch at The Waffle Window, went to Costco for salads, and checked in to the hotel. On Saturday, we did a free 2 hour walking tour: Secrets of Portlandia, ate at some local food carts, explored Powell\u2019s City of Books, drank coffee at Public Domain, explored the International Rose Test Garden, ate dinner at Nicolas Restaurant, and watched the Starlight Parade at the hotel. On Sunday, we hiked Wakeenah Falls and Multnomah Falls\u2026and then went to the gym at the hotel. On Monday, we checked out of the hotel, ate lunch at Shut up and Eat, bought Voodoo Donuts for people back home, explored The Grotto (La Pieta), and flew back home on Southwest where Christine picked us up.<\/p>\n
Aaron is now engaged to Lauren. They\u2019ve been dating for a year more or less. I guess it is going well, but I don\u2019t really know her that well. I hope that they\u2019re job situation is good since they both work at the same company. That just makes it scary if their workplace ever doesn\u2019t do well. I think they work to produce a cancer drug, but it has yet to be approved by the FDA. They\u2019ll be getting married at the end of the year on 12\/19, so we\u2019ll be coming down that weekend since we\u2019ll probably help out at the wedding.<\/p>\n
My dad has been getting older. Last week, someone went into his computer, so he wanted to buy a software from Microsoft to clean it up. That night, he totally forgot about this. He had told my mom and me in different conversations, but he acted like nothing ever happened, and that he didn\u2019t buy the software. We were pretty freaked out at that. They prayed about it, and the next morning, he was starting to have some recollection of it. It makes me a little sad that my dad might be losing his memory, but I guess that is just what happens as we age. I might be like that when I\u2019m older since I sometimes forget things that I was about to do.<\/p>\n
Our roommate, Jo-Ann, who has been with us the longest (since last September\u2026so nine-ten months!) just received two job offers! I\u2019m so happy for her since it has been maybe a few months of searching. She will either work in the Mountain View school district or a staffing agency (?) for schools up in the East bay. She has by tomorrow to decide, so she\u2019ll have a lot of research to do tonight. I\u2019m biased and hope that she\u2019ll take the MV job since then, she\u2019ll stay with us. She has been a really nice roommate and friend for the time that we have known her. However, I know that East Bay is where her church and friends are and it\u2019ll be less of a drive to go hang out with them (she\u2019ll have to move if she takes the East Bay job), but it is her decision, and I\u2019m just happy that God has been able to answer her prayers. Woohoo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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