Oregon

So here are all the pictures of our big move. We picked up the U-haul at 9 in the morning and then headed to the D.I. to buy a box spring. (Don't worry, they sell brand new ones). After buying that, we went to Chris' grandma's house to pick up a dresser and a bed frame. After getting those we then headed to my parents storage unit to get most of our furniture. We got our couch, bookcase, coffee table, shelves, and the pink and white striped couch seat. Thanks to everyone who donated furniture to us. The rest of the day we spent finishing packing, figuring out how to make everything fit in the U-haul and loading the U-haul. We said our goodbyes to Chris' parents and headed to my parents to hook the trailer up to the back of the truck.

This is Chris' car filled to the brim:

My cute mom and cute niece Bana

Saying our goodbyes: (this one's not real since my dad drove the u-haul and trailer to Oregon with us)






After our goodbyes we were on our way. It was so hard to say goodbye, but Chris cheered me up fairly easily, it was hard to be sad when we were so excited for our new adventure.

This was our view most of the drive.

Finally making it into Oregon!

We passed some interesting people on the drive...


"I wish I were an Oscar Meyer Weiner!"

Where are all the trees everyone told us were all over oregon?

Passing La Grande, the only place I've ever been in Oregon, where I went to basketball camp 4 summers in a row and had such good times.

This is what Chris calls a "squorist" (square+forest) We passed a few of these in Oregon. They were literally square forests-very cool!

This is a crappy picture, but this is the Columbia River that we followed for several hours into Portland. We both thought it was an extremely long lake until we mentioned it to each other and realized it was a river haha. They don't have rivers anywhere near this big in Utah!

Columbia River dam (I think)


We drove past a lot of cool bridges.

Mt. Hood

Now these are REAL forests-getting close to Portland. I love all the trees here!

We finally made it!

Moving into our place:
the bathroom with no vanity our counter or anything.

bedroom

2nd bedroom

kitchen-(note: objects in picture are smaller than they appear) this picture makes our kitchen look bigger than it really is.

living room

I'll have to post more pictures once we have everything organized...unfortunately it doesn't look much better than when we moved in. After we moved in Saturday my dad wanted to take us out for one last dinner so we drove around the town for a while but couldn't find any sit down restaurants! We finally found an interesting little mexican place on Main Street, but mostly everything here is pizza places. On Sunday we drove my dad out to the airport and had quite a time finding our way there since the freeway we needed to take was closed. I had a hard time after he left, I think it finally hit me that we were all alone in this state, with no family nearby. Monday thru Friday of the next week we pretty much spent everyday driving to Hillsboro, a bigger town that actually has stores like Target so we could buy little things we needed to make our apartment work. On Thursday we went to Indian Beach and it was FREEZING! Unfortunately we were not expecting that since it had been record breaking heat all weak. It felt pretty good though since we have no AC in our place and have been so sweaty all the time. We also met a bunch of optometry students and their wives at the beach from the ward.
The beach was beautiful despite the cold.


We are still working on getting everything "oregonized" (as Chris likes to joke all the time) but we are loving it here! Other than having to drive 25 minutes to get to good stores we love our little town. I love all the trees everywhere and all the green. We are really excited to spend the next 4 (hopefully 3) years here! And we're hoping I get a job really soon since Chris starts school in a week!