Welcome to Oregon

Well, we made it. Geez, it was a long trip.
How was it? you ask. Let me paint a picture for you.
First, take your cats and get them meowing real loud. Then stare at this picture for 30 hours.

For the full effect, eat about 5 pounds of sunflower seeds.

I listened to several books on tape to pass the time, which helped tremendously.
The first was Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights. It was pretty good and kept me interested. But, seriously, Heathcliff, do you love her or hate her? Did you really have to be such an asshole?

Second was Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air, an account of a 1996 climb of Mount Everest that ended rather poorly. This was a really cool listen, but the timing was pretty bad, considering that the worst part was playing while we were driving through a crazy rainstorm in eastern Oregon. Yikes. I'll tell you what, I am never going to climb Mount Everest (as if that was ever really a possibility anyway...)

All in all, the trip went a lot better than I thought it would be. The cats were pissed but seem to be recovering fine. We got to see Anna and Mike (yay! we miss them!) and saw some awesome Idaho...



and Oregon....

...sunsets.

And when we got here, we were greeted by a very friendly squirrel running about in our backyard.


(At first, we thought this was really amazing, but it turns out that this neighborhood (state?) is completely overrun with them)

We are still in the process of setting up our house. I promise pictures soon.