My Apologies

To All of our Friends...

My apologies for the last post... I now have a blog for my class and I inadvertently sent you all my school blog post...

Hope you are all well!!

Maureen and John
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New Post From Rebecca in 11H

English class this year has been great so far, but we all know it's going to be different from the English classes we had last year. We are going to have to learn how to handle more homework. I thought it would be a good idea to have a blog where everyone can write about what techniques they used in order to handle English class last year. This may help give each other new ideas for making homework less of an ordeal.

Pictures...

Hi,

We're getting packed up and ready to come home... We just uploaded some pictures you might want to see! The first one is John horseback riding on the beach. Diane was with him and said he was a natural. The second picture is John, Connor (to the left) and Jordan (to the right) while they were trying to catch the "wild" bunnies at the Oregon Coast. they all had a great time.

See you soon.

Maureen and John

Columbia River Gorge

Hello!!

Only three more days and we're on our way home... I think both of us are looking forward to coming home. 30 days is a long time to be away from home! John is definitely missing his friends and his dog Chloe. He's gotten to the point that he calls Paul just to listen to Chloe on the phone. We got to go down to the Columbia River Gorge yesterday and see Multnomah Falls (I hope I spelled that correctly). Both were beautiful, but I think John has hit his quota of sights to see...

Today we're going into Portland with Diane and will check out some of the Portland sights. I keep meaning to upload pictures, but I never seem to get the chance...maybe tonight!

We hope you're all doing well and we are definitely looking forward to seeing you soon!!!!

Maureen and John

Washington/Oregon

Hi Everyone,

John and I got to Oregon on Monday afternoon. Loving the weather... it's much cooler here than it was in Salt Lake. It goes down into the 50's at night. John is enjoying playing with Connor and Jordan and I am enjoying having time to sit down and talk to Diane!

We went to the Oregon Coast and John got to go horseback riding with Diane and Jordan. The coast is beautiful, but not really made for New Yorkers who want to go to the "beach". In fact, we were in jeans and fleece for most of the time we were there.

We'll update you more soon!

Maureen

Good Bye Salt Lake City!

Well, it's Monday morning and we are getting ready to go to Diane and Bill's house in Oregon. We spent yesterday just relaxing since we've been on the go for the past three weeks! Salt Lake is an easy city to get around by foot, but John and I wanted to try out the trolley too! We spent some time over in Temple Square to see all of the buildings. I was trying to get John to stop for the Tabernacle Choir's practice, but he had other plans! Don't worry Mom - no one tried to convert us!

We spent the rest of the day at the movie theater seeing Get Smart.... It was actually a good idea since I think it was 98 degrees here. No matter what anyone says...98 is hot - dry heat or not! We then got on two incorrect trolleys before we finally got back to the hotel. We did pick up a new book for John about Ripley's Believe it or Not. As I watched him trying to read that book as we were eating dinner, and reading it as we were walking back to the hotel, he reminded me so much of myself when I would read my books at the dinner table. John has discovered that there are 15 or so Ripleys museums and he'd like to do a road trip to visit those as well. We saw our first in Jackson Hole. Thank Goodness there's another in NYC and Atlantic City so we won't have to travel too far just yet. However, one of them is in Thailand!!!

We will be in Oregon until the 30th and then we fly home. John is looking forward to riding bikes, going four-wheeling, going to the coast and (if you can believe it) not eating in restaurants anymore! I'm just looking forward to sitting down and talking to my friend!!!

Talk to you soon!!

Maureen

Grand Teton Mountains

Hey...

I got some pictures uploaded last night, so I can send some pictures along for you to see.... The Grant Tetons are absolutely breathtaking. Also, when we were driving through Teton National Park we were able to see more wildlife up close than we did in Yellowstone.