Friday, January 30, 2009

slip slidin' away

What's more fun then having a sliding contest in the hallway? Rodriguez entertainment doesn't get much better than this! I don't remember who had the longest slide, but I can tell you who had the sorest butt and hips...the old fogies...mom and dad! We ain't what we used ta' be!












Thursday, January 22, 2009

A little crooked house...

Becky and I did a little driving around to see the aftermath of the flooding in our area. What we saw was pretty amazing. It is incredible how powerful water can be. The house picture above reminded me of a place I went to when I was a little girl. All of you Oregonians will surely remember Enchanted Forest, a small amusement park of sorts near Salem, based on Nursery Rhymes. I think it is still open today, I took my kids there a few years ago. One attraction is based on the rhyme "There was a crooked man" (There was a crooked man and he walked a crooked mile, he found a crooked sixpence upon a crooked stile. He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse. And they all lived together in a little crooked house.) You get to walk through a little crooked house and it sort of feels like you had just spun around ten times to get that feeling of dizziness.
This is the garage of the little green house. Thank goodness most people evacuated the area before the river crested. No one was hurt.

Landslide near the highway.

Thursday, January 8, 2009

"Flood of Biblical Proportions..."

...So the radio announcer said as we were driving around our town to take a look at all the flooding in our area. A true statement, when you see the pictures! Portions of I5 are closed and 50+ rivers around Washington have flooded. All of the mountain passes into the Seattle area are closed due to Avalanche. It's a crazy time around here! Our school district is in the middle of it all, therefore we are counting day 2 of no school. The Snoqualmie River has crested and is flowing wherever it can. This is a local RV park and these are the bathrooms! (or were the bathrooms...might need your scuba gear to use them now!)Hwy 202 from Fall City to Snoqualmie. This is Becky's bus route...maybe she can get there with a canoe today? Snoqualmie Falls are fast and Furious, so powerful! It was an incredible view. We got in to see it just before they closed the road.





"Livin' our Love Song"


After being in the car for 6 hours with the kids, Tim and I were ready for some time out alone! For Christmas Tim gave me tickets to an acustic guitar country concert with Darryl Worley, Heidi Newfield, and Jason Michael Carroll and we got home just in time to make it! We had a wonderful time!



Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Over the river and through the rain/snow

...to Grandad and Grammy's in Redmond, OR. It was a quick, last minute trip which cured our cabin fever due to all the snow we had in Seattle. We took the long way around because Snoqalmie pass was closed. We went over Mt. Hood in Oregon and learned that passed also closed a few hours after we crossed. We felt blessed to have found a safe window! Such is life on the passes during the winter...it's a gamble!We played Bingo, we played Hearts, we played No Peeky, we played the Wii (at Uncle John's and Aunt Sandra's, who live nearby) and played and played even more. We did take a break to head out to the Prineville Reservoir to scout out our camping spot for a summer vacation and almost got blown away, the wind was so strong!4 bugs snug on the rug"Over the (Columbia) River (Gorge)". What a view! We stopped to look on our way back home.We stopped at Washington's version of Stonehenge, The first WWI monument.