Sever and I joined his family in Hawaii for Christmas. We left during the crazy weather, aka Arctic Blast '08, that was taking place in the Pacific Northwest. We barely made it to the airport after over an hour of driving with 4
WD and chains on
Sever's half ton pickup. We quickly parked the truck, left the chains on and headed to our terminal. Need we not forget that we both managed to get everything we needed down to a carry on bag each. Yes girls, I went to Hawaii for a week with only a
carry on bag. Let it be known that the line to check bags was three hours long, we made the right choice. We soon found out that our flight was delayed and attempted to hop another flight. We went on stand by for the next flight out of
PDX, within 5 minutes of being in the airport we were on a plane to Seattle. When we landed in Seattle we had just enough time to run to the terminal to catch our connection. As soon as we sat down at the terminal, a lady announced that the plane would board in 3 minutes. Meanwhile Sever and I were mentally still in Portland...did we really make it out of
PDX?!? We boarded our plane to
Li hue, Hawaii in hopes that in 5 and a half hours we would be sitting on a sunny beach. After two hours of sitting on the run way in Seattle we realized that our flight had been delayed...we had no pilot. Details... So we sat in the plane with no air for 2 hours until the pilot arrived. Once in flight we quickly found that all drinks were free and we took full advantage. We arrived in Hawaii late Monday night and spent one beautiful week on the beach. We had a wonderful Christmas and a very fun New Years Eve, once back in Portland. We got home Tuesday morning and were happily reminded of our stressful
trek to the airport...Sever
preceded to take the chains off of his truck before we could drive home :)
Well friends, we are currently experiencing blizzard like conditions...in OREGON!? Yes, you heard right....blizzard like conditions, in Oregon! We are having a blast playing in the snow! Moser had a great day playing with our friends puppies in the snow! We went sledding and even cut down a Christmas tree. Hard to imagine that we will be on the beaches of Hawaii in a week. 
Sever and I headed down to Corvallis this weekend for the Beaver game! We had a great time at the game, we had front row seats! The Beavers beat Cal 34 to 21! We are looking forward to the Civil War in a couple of weeks! GO BEAVS!
