Some cool video of the resident wolf eels and octopus at Hatfield Marine Science Center:

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Adventure Gallery: Oregon Coast Trip

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Why not take two minutes away from your stressful, busy day and watch this peaceful little video of our hike to Proxy Falls? It will transport you to the Three Sisters Wilderness, where vine maples grow like twigs of green, orange, and red paint from the charcoal grey lava rocks that are their canvas. Then, [...]

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The link below will take you to a photo album with a few photos of Evan and Erin (mostly Evan) from our hike to Proxy Falls and other sites in the McKenzie Pass area. It’s a private album, so if you haven’t set up a login to our photo gallery, why not do it right [...]

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On Sunday, we had a great day hiking with the kids to Proxy Falls off the old McKenzie Highway. What a gorgeous — and accessible — area! For years, Jen and I passed up this spot because it’s such a short hike (1 mile loop) for how long it takes to get there (about 80 [...]

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Last weekend we made an impromptu and inaugural trip to Wildlife Safari in Winston, OR (just south of Roseburg). We’d heard from a couple other parents that it was worth visiting. I’m happy to report that we had a pretty good time. Evan really enjoyed it, and even Erin seemed to respond by trying to [...]

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On Sunday morning, we got up even earlier than the day before so we could make the hour drive from Portland to Hood River in time for our 9am ride with Thomas the Tank Engine. Though it wasn’t initially our first choice, we were relieved to be on the first train of the day because, [...]

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On Friday afternoon, we arrived at the Embassy Suites in downtown Portland. We’ve stayed at a few places in downtown Portland, but this was our first time at this Embassy Suites. Let me just say that when you have kids — especially ones with early bed times like ours — it is so worth paying [...]

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The theme for the Portland leg of our trip was “trains,” as you can see by the following photos.
From downtown Portland, we rode the MAX light rail out to the Oregon Zoo:

Once at the zoo, we rode the “zoo train” through the woods to Washington Park and back:

The following day, we drove out to Hood [...]

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My appendix, to be exact.
On Sunday afternoon we returned from a 9-day “vacation” to Portland and Western Washington, during which I had an emergency laparoscopic appendectomy shortly after arriving in the Seattle area. I awoke at around 1am on the first night in our Bellevue hotel with severe abdominal pain that persisted despite downing numerous [...]

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