The nieces visit Oregon

Our awesome nieces Wyp and Nico, as they are known for short, honored us with a short and very pleasant visit. They arrived last Thursday evening after hopping around the US on three airplanes each coming from Ithaca NY and Colorado Springs CO. Amazingly, both arrived more or less on time at PDX airport with their luggage. While the rest of the US was melting away in record heat, Oregon was blessed with cool mornings and pleasant sunny afternoons.

Nico and Wyp took full advantage of the Pacific Northwest by sampling nearly every beer available in the region, drinking the local wines, doing some sight seeing in the short time they were here, relaxing and swimming in the lake. In good family tradition plates of food were photographed and shown to the world. The reason for this tradition is unknown, but it does prove one gets fed at our house.

A cool morning at Vista House in the
 Columbia Gorge

The nieces at Multnomah Falls

Waiting 45 minutes in line to
 purchase the world famous Voodoo
Doughnuts in Portland Oregon

Amazingly, old Ithaca friend Katie and her husband
 Ryan managed to find us at the Saturday Art Fair
in Portland and we enjoyed a pleasant
 dinner at the Bridgeport Brewery in the Pearl.