We finally had a parting moment with our lovely family car Odyssey after 17 years from the moment we brought it home. We had lots of fun and too many adorable memories attached to this mini van which never hesitated to drive us all around the places we went and acumulated 210k miles afterwards.
Now The Oddy is on new owners hand – hopefully serving their needs in, maybe, few remaining years of its life. π One big milestone or end of chapter for our families bittersweet – ToT
Finally, the last day – first leg was moving from Boise to Yakima where we passed thru desert area of Eastern Oregon, and endless wheat fields of Washington
One randomly found 24 hours donut shop at Portland during midnight run for Supercharging brought me back to one memory lane from Ames. How much did I miss that experience! π
Reason of being down in Portland was actually the kid’s event. Our little buddy was honored to participate his school’s team 1 despite he was selected as an ‘alter’ aka the 5th man in a 4 vs 4 format.
Team did great thanks to smart and sharp kids plus lot of preparation efforts but just fell a hair short (3rd but close L to two teams ahead of them) to enjoy a trip to DC for National round π
I hope our little buddy learned about a lot about good team work and built/strengthened good friendships as well as some science knowledge.
Had a quick 1 night visit to our southern neighborhood – Portland. However, something new at this time was actually this was my first visit and stay near the city center.
Voluntary decorations of the houses with holiday lights in one block of street. The most amazing thing is the fact this street is 100% voluntarily and giving up the privacy with high traffic of cars and foots and nobody provides any support. (and this street is now registered as US Historic Places)
Power of User Generated Content is visible even in holiday lights…