My first concert was the Gap Band with Midnight Star opening for them. I don't remember the year but I've never forgotten the concert. My big sister let me tag along with her and her friends. No one ever forgets their first concert. Noah and Cam got to go to really cool laid back one. Amos Lee and David Gray had an outside concert that was perfect. It was all lawn seating. The view was great. The music was perfect. We love Amos Lee. The kid's have grown up listening to his music and Noah could sing along to about a third of the songs. David Gray was a mystery to me. I haven't really listened to him since his first album but his show was awesome. He was a great performer. Hopefully it made an impression with the kids. I'm glad Amanda and Sue got to share it with them. Come to think of it, I'm glad their parents got to share it with them too.
The Swoosh
Last time we were in Portland, I got a tour of Nike's campus from Amanda. This time the kids were bigger so we all decided to take a peek. Coming from 2 people who work in school districts, it seemed like a foreign country. We were there during lunch time and the amount of people working out was astonishing. The culture of health was unlike anything we experience. If you workout you get an additional 30 minutes of lunch. I don't know logistically how every company can emulate that but what a service for your employees. Everything from the tennis courts, to the gyms, to the pool, to the soccer field was being used. Jenna loved seeing the soccer field where one of her Nike Training Club app's trainer's had a bullhorn and was putting about 200 employees through a crazy workout.
The kids enjoyed it in different ways. Campbell just thought it was a town with cool art. Noah just looked at the banners of all the athletes. They got to run a lap on the track and see museum worthy things they won't appreciate until they are older. This trip to Portland really opened Noah's eyes to a lot of sports. Lacrosse seems to be his new "favorite" sport. My personal favorite moment was seeing a group of engineers (or whatever they are) putting a group through workouts as they tested Sparx gear.
Thanks to Sue for taking us there on her day off, even though people kept trying to stop her and engage her in work :)
Sue and Amanda's Utopia
Not a bad way to wake up.
Oregon 2015
What an amazing trip. We crammed in as much of the Pacific Northwest as we could but still left feeling like we missed a lot. I'll document the different adventures we had one by one. The trip started on a high note with Campbell flying for the first time that she can remember. The look on her face as we took off was awesome. Then we landed at Amanda and Sue's resort. It needs a name like Shangri La or something. Then we hit the coast, we hit the woods, we hit Nike, we hit the waterfalls, we went to the kid's first concert, we brewed beer with an airshow flying overhead, and mostly we recharged our batteries. Our hosts were amazing and for the second time in as many trips, Jenna was checking job openings in case we decided to stay :)
New photo galleries-Oregon and Teeball
I put up a couple of new photo galleries last night. One is documenting Noah's first teeball season while the other is (finally) on our trip to Oregon.
Oregon-Summer 2011
Last week we embarked on a new adventure to the West Coast. We flew into Portland to Amanda and Sue's to be joined by The Jordan's, Powell's, and Magga.
We were the only one's in the group yet to visit here and I think we were 'digging it the most.' We were there for just a day before heading to Pacific City for the 4th. I acclimated to calling it the 'coast' instead of 'beach' right away since it was unlike any beach I'd ever experienced. I'll break the trip up into parts with more posts, but I think this picture sums up the trip pretty well.
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I'd credit whoever took this photo, but I found it on my computer and have no idea who took it so speak up if you know.
