Trip to Portland, day one

 I am blogging from my phone and can’t get get my text bigger, so be sure to get out your reading glasses. 

Wednesday morning started VERY early. Our flight to Portland was leaving the local airport at 6:30, and of course I like to arrive WAY ahead, and I need plenty of time to get myself ready and final packing done. We tried to sneak out of the house as quietly as possible so we wouldn’t waken Destiny, Alex, and Elizer.  I think we were successful.  

Ready to go!

One big event that had happened the day before was Destiny’s successful trip to the DMV. She finally has a driver’s license!!!  We were ecstatic!!

On our flight from State College to Detroit we had beautiful views of the sunrise.  

It’s a good thing we did, because unbelievably on our next flight across the country, over four hours long, we had NO window!!  The same thing had happened to us in 2017!  We were really disappointed. I had originally picked our seats, but our flights were changed several times, so my chosen seats were gone. 

I had fun watching the progress of our flight, and I also watched a really good documentary, “I Am Not Your  Negro.”  Dick watched some shows. 

We had to rush from gate to gate in Seattle to make our next flight, but when we got there we found that they had not yet started boarding because they were waiting for the crew!

The flight from Seattle to Portland was very short and we had a fantastic view of Mount Hood above the clouds

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Jeremy met us at the airport.  

Mike had the guest room ready for us and looking so lovely, complete with fresh flowers!  

We enjoyed relaxing on the back porch until the kids came home from school. 

I made dinner - skillet shepherd’s pie.  But I never thought of taking pictures.  I went to bed soon after dinner  with the time change and my very early start, it had been a good, but loooong day!!