Oregon and packing

Sorry we didn't write last week. We went to Oregon for the weekend!

We tried our hardest to put in a full week of work before we went up to Salem, but it was difficult since we still have such a long list of items to take care of before we move. Nothing seems more occupying than a move and all the errands we need to do before that happens. Luckily, thanks to Karl and Angela, we can cross "finding an apartment" off that list. We're moving to the Old Orchard apartments in Santa Clara. Santa Clara might have the same crime level as Ann Arbor, but it still frightens us to move into a place which can't spell correctly in their advertisements on Craigslist [unless they really meant that their apartments are specious and not spacious like we assumed they meant].

After Rebecca's Thursday night mutual and a fax to Magma, we finally got out of town around 9:30 at night. This trip we brought our cat with us who promptly decided that this road trip was going to be her last and started hyperventilating. I wanted to take her back; Rebecca told me the cat would be fine. I listened to her and after four hours [more like two, but who's counting? -beck], the cat finally decided she was doomed and curled up into a ball on the floor of the car and fell asleep for the rest of the trip. I, however, could not sleep so well and spent most of the night driving.

We collapsed at Jon and Faith's house early Friday afternoon and slept for the rest of it. Once Jon and Faith were home, we headed out to the coast and spent the weekend out there enjoying the cold weather and the beautiful fog (and beaches... don't forget the ocean!). Although we didn't do anything out of the ordinary this vacation, it was very nice to spend our second to last week in Utah...in Oregon. With our friends Jon and Faith. We miss them so.

We also made it up to Portland to visit one of Rebecca's old BYU roommates, Amy, on Tuesday. We did lunch and enjoyed catching up and even did some window shopping before we headed back to Salem to avoid traffic. It was a good visit.

Since we've gotten back this past Thursday, it's been packing season for us. Our hallways are full of boxes and there are partly filled boxes everywhere this Sunday. We reached a point yesterday when we couldn't stand packing anymore and went out to a park for some time. I drew monkeys while Rebecca worked on her talk for today. She did a great job talking about service and "why we should serve." And Rebecca's parents are in town. And everyone's going to help us load the truck Tuesday.

Did I mention we're moving. And we're excited about that. Oh, yeah... we're excited about that. Oh... yeah.