Ohhh Chicago...
while its been good to be home in Texas, I do miss Chicago. My one true love...
on the Skyway
Free Cherries upon entering Michigan. Great lakes, great times indeed!
worthy of printing--nice job Em!
We got different memos on our warrior faces.
Sue, the T-rex at the Field museum
no caption seems enough to explain this...
hotcha pirate!
Emily being a barnacle and doing a nice job
A long day and then some arches
Tuesday we left Tahoe at 630am to drive to Moab. We didnt arrive till 10pm. It was a long hot day.
And we got caught in a salt storm in the Salt Flats in Utah. It looked kind of like this.
But Utah was beautiful! Salt Lake! Price Canyon! Moab! Canyonlands! I had no idea. But hot. Yes hot. Good night.
After spending a night at a dirty gross nasty hostel and vowing not to return, we got up at early to hike out to Delicate Arch.
The sun and the rock face up were intense. But how beautiful and how huge! I felt so small.
Then we explored the rest of the Arches National Park.
Devils Garden
No name arches
Double Arch
Me at Double Arch after playing monkey girl and scaling the rocks barefoot. ( I had a mean blister)
Lake Tahoe
Sunday Miranda and I took off to Lake Tahoe.
Beautiful! We spent the first day on the beach there.
Attempted night out which amounted to dinner, 1 beer, and bed time at 10pm.
The next day we got up early to hike out to Marlette Lake on the Nevada side. Prehike...pregetting lost, pre blister, pre hunger, presunburn. Pre.
What was waiting for us 5 miles from the parking lot. It took 6 miles to get back. Bad directions...but we also saw this
After stuffing our faces I went and got ice cream and sat on the beach, watching the sun set.
Let it begin
the journey east that is.
Thursday I left Portland
and was met by stifling heat at the state line. And full on sunshine.
and this view of Mt Shasta. Pretty magnificent actually.
and the golden hills on 80 between Sac and Vacaville at sunset. The sunset was spectacular with the sky all pinks and oranges and fields of sunflowers for miles. Goodness.
Also spectacular are my photography skills. I took all of these with my hand out the window, not even looking.
Tomorrow Miranda and I head out to Lake Tahoe for some hiking and swimming and then onto Moab for more hiking and sweating and 100 degree desert heat. Then onto Chicago.
Sauvie Island
Today we went to Sauvie Island to pick strawberries. It was beautiful and sunny and hot and amazing!
The happy fam post pick...these photos arent in order.
Pax chowing down. He said out loud each time--take off the green!
Ryan and Pax sorting the berries.
The best picture Ive ever seen of Ryan and I. Thanks Holly!
And what it looked like on Sauvie Island. So beautiful it almost looked fake.
Overdue
Hands down, my favorite photo from Spain.
Thanks Neil.
Persuasion by a toddler
P: Want some yucky water Aunt Lisa?
L: No thank you, I like my water clean.
P: Its kinda saltyyyyyyy
L: No I dont really like yucky water but thank you for sharing.
(30 seconds pass)
P: want some yucky water Aunt Lisa?
L: Nope. Im still good with my clean water.
P: maybe later?
these latter days
Mt Diablo with Bsan before the fog burned off. The whole Bay Area is under that deceiving white blanket...somewhere...
The clouds were so beautiful that day. They looked like giant feathers in the sky.
View from the Summit-ish. This was kind of around the bend. But you could see 4 of 5 the 5 bridges that day.
And on the road to Oregon-this is what I saw immediatley after crossing the border in Siskiyou Pass. And the rest of the way in as well...green green everywhere.
My goal for my 3 weeks in Portland, as painted on R&H's wall.
And play with Pax.
and was met by stifling heat at the state line. And full on sunshine.
and this view of Mt Shasta. Pretty magnificent actually.
and the golden hills on 80 between Sac and Vacaville at sunset. The sunset was spectacular with the sky all pinks and oranges and fields of sunflowers for miles. Goodness.
Also spectacular are my photography skills. I took all of these with my hand out the window, not even looking. 
