Looking forward to our visit to Southern Oregon

We're getting ready to leave for the Rogue Valley for a 5 day trip. It will be our "spring break" vacation since this is the only block of time that Charles can get away from work for any length of time. We'll be visiting family and hopefully seeing a few friends too! Nathanael plans to ride his dirt bike constantly from the moment we get there until the moment we leave!


Mikael is just planning to play, and maybe shoot spinners from Grandpa Syd's back porch. "Shooting spinners" is a type of target practice where they shoot .22's at pieces of wood which have been drilled and threaded over a horizontal metal rod so that when you hit one end of any of the pieces they spin.


I'm not sure what I'm looking forward to doing since I'm still trying to realize that in just 9 hours or so we'll be leaving. I don't really have anything packed yet, though I have been working on my list of things to do and to take! I think Charles is just looking forward to some down time, and maybe a game or two of Settlers of Catan with old friends. Other than visiting with family, going to Bible Study on Wednesday night and letting the kids play, we really don't have any agenda. It's rather a relief to let the schedule go and just see what happens. Rarely do I get to do that (usually because my personality doesn't do well with that sort of approach to most things). We'll be offline until late Sunday night. No doubt, I'll have some crazy story to relate when we get back home and back online! Until then, have a green St. Patrick's Day and a Happy Spring!