Portland and Beyond

We've been in Portland for over a week now and Tom has had all of his medical appointments - he's fine by the way. Our friends, Mary and Paul, will be arriving on Sunday afternoon. On Tuesday, we're all heading north to what we hope is cooler country. We plan to see some sights in Seattle, i.e., the Seattle underground, the market, eat pizza at a special place that Mary read about, go to Bainbridge Island and whatever other trouble we can find. We are also planning on looking up our line dancing instructors for a visit and maybe a little line dancing refresher. After we part ways with Paul and Mary, we are headed west to the Olympic Penn to see a few more sights and also to Vancouver Island to visit friends there. We love the island and are so looking forward to being back there again. Our friend has an apartment that overlooks James Bay where the cruise ships come in - beautiful. She's on the 10th floor so we can see the ships and planes. We have other friends in Sooke and plan to visit them also. We don't know how long we'll be in Washington, but we plan to just take it as it comes. We have been having so much fun here in Portland - seeing our friends, Donna visiting her daughter, participating in the park activities, including Karaoke, eating at some of our favorite restaurants, and just relaxing. It's great that Tom isn't working while we're here, but he does have a little trouble remembering that at times. The temptation is almost too much for him to resist!!!!! Life is good for us and we feel so lucky to be living this life. We are in our 10th year now of full timing and have no plans to stop in the foreseeable future. Hope your summer is going as well as ours is.