Update for elevenseses

The trip was great. At some point I decided that we would be like a leaf in a stream. I didn't want any sort of harsh schedule of events, any requirements, any thing that we HAD to do.

When we landed, we made my brother-in-law take us to In-and-Out, since we don't have any of those back home. We drove through the ghetto of Portland, in the pitch black night, to secure greasy fast food. This is ironic but will become apparent later in the story.

Mom was tense and sad at first, but slowly started to feel better, I think.

We saw some sights over the ten days we were there, but the food was what was really great about Portland. Got to see the Pacific Ocean, something that was on my bucket list. And I got to see my neice and nephew!

The kids handled the flights and airport shit like pros. Maybe it was the coaching, the prep talks, I don't know. But they were great.

On the way to the airport, my father-in-law got a flat tire. We swapped it out in like ten minutes, but it was hectic.

This post is hectic, I'm jumping around way too much, but I keep remembering flashes instead of a solid, consistent timeline.

When we got back into town, I started feeling sick, then go laryngitis! I'm just now getting over it, something like ten days later.

Anyway, short update post today, next week should get back to normal with weird observations and so forth.