GFU Rally Ride 2010

Every two years George Fox University puts on a Rally ride for Alumni and Friends that opens up an opportunity to ride with others and hear a "alumni spiel."

In the slide show are some pictures of us on the ride. We had a fun time and met some people that live and work around Newberg. It was our first Rally ride!

Suggestions for next time: Get off more often for stretching, use a camelback for more intake of water (It was 99 degrees out!), Less up and down hills (we're cruisers not sports bikes!).

But a splendid time was guaranteed for all.

Steve and I took a trip out to Sister's Oregon today on the motorcycle. It was probably the longest ride we've been on together!

We started out this morning around 10am and headed down to Salem. Exiting onto the OR-22. We made several stops along the way (those are in the pictures).

When we arrived at Sisters we realized that there was a little car show going on! So we stopped and looked at all the cars! As we were meandering around we realized that there were a LOT of motorcycles around Sisters... We over heard someone say there was a rally going on. Turns out there was a BMW rally going on in Redmond. They were all passing through Sisters and using it for a stopping place!

Enjoy the pictures! Sorry there weren't more of us! Next time!

Tara

Sarge

Renovation Part 2

Hello all! What a weekend! Steve taught a class on Saturday while I sent to Ikea to get some goodies for the home. After a massive amount of work... we now have new floor in our living room! We'll give you the play by play at a later time... now it is time for sleep!

What's missing from this picture?

So... the DIY network is dangerous. If you have talked to me in the past couple of weeks you'll have heard that we have been watching the DIY network quite a bit. Well, Steve has become passioned about making some changes around the home. WOW.

So he tackled the first thing today!

He took out our little fireplace (that we never use) and we put it on Craigslist. Now to the list of home improvement projects:

Take out the brick background behind where the fireplace was
Put in floor to ceiling book shelves along that same wall
Add a deck to our back yard right behind the house
Add a patio behind the garage
Finish painting the windows and garage trim
Take out carpet in living room - install wood (or laminate flooring)
Repave Driveway and create actual driveway
Take out grass on the side of house and side of garage - replace with pea gravel
Clean gutters and repair
Repair and replace fence posts
Drywall the inside of the garage
Take out the 4x4 posts in back yard
Replace fan in bathroom
Recaulk tub
Take out sofit lighting in living room and kitchen
Replace lighting in living room and kitchen
New kitchen floor
New Siding
Create a window from kitchen to living room
Expand bedroom into 2nd bedroom and create a walk in closet

Umm... We have a lot to do. Guess we are going to stick around here for a while!

Graduation

We arrived at the Oregon Convention Center around 8:45am and parted our separate ways - me to the "Graduates section" and Steve to the "visitors section." I got to meet a few people from the online forums and realized the great numbers of people that were getting this degree!

This was Marylhurst's 116th commencement ceremony - and the largest one they had! There were 4 speakers, The president and three student speakers. One of the student speakers was pretty incredible. He started his 2 year program as he was in the Navy and posted from 5 out of 7 continents and from all 7 of the oceans! WOW. Pretty incredible.

Anyway, it was a pretty good ceremony and on August 28th I'll really be able to celebrate it!

Here's some pictures that Steve and Kristi took!

Day off Ride

What a day off!

We started off (see previous post) heading to Portland to see where we needed to go on Saturday...but after that we drove up to 23rd St (kind of an upscale bohemian hang out) and wandered through a toy store and looked at the shops. Driving in Portland is a little tougher than driving in Newberg!

We then took Burnside up over the hills headed toward the 26 and Hillsboro Beaverton areas. This long part of the ride was riddled with stop signs and traffic, but gave us quite a few windy roads to enjoy.

We made it out to the Streets of Tanasbourne and Motosports Hillsboro and looked at some shoes and a new bike for Steve.

Lots of windy roads back and forth through Hillsboro and then over the Chehalem Mountain for a total of 75 miles. We'll need some more practice to get ready for our Alumni Ride in August!



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