Zach eating strawberries

Zach has turned into a strawberry monster. He is having his "desert." At this point he is on strawberry number 7.

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Just under 10 hours

Well the hardest mural I have ever undertaken has been completed. It took way longer than I expected, but I think the finished product looks pretty darn good and the most important thing is Zach loves it.

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The bicycling is amazing and so is the town

I did not think you could ascend over 2000' in less than 15 miles but I managed to do it the other day, heck just getting out of our subdivision you climb 100 feet in less than a minute and then another 200 if you want to go out the back way to the non busy roads. I have found some climbs that are around two miles in length that avg 4 to 6% and then some that hit 18%+. Then if you want to ride into town, like to the Tuesday night crit, you descend 340' in less than a mile hitting 40+mph, the only problem with that is that you have to climb back up that thing on the way home, it really hurts after you have just done a 25mile crit averaging 24+.

They also have a Saturday and Sunday morning ride. I was able to do the Saturday ride and man those guys are strong on the climbs luckily they wait for everybody when they get to the top. We climbed over 3000' that day. So I guess I need to get myself back into climbing shape after living in the flat lands for the last 2 years.

On the house front we have just about got all the boxes unloaded and I have been working real hard on getting the murals in Zach's room done before Heather goes back to work. This town is really cool, there is so much to do. On Saturday and Tuesday they have the"city market" downtown. They sell everything from fresh produce to jewelry and pottery. Zach has turned into a strawberry monster, when we go to the market we have to try to keep him away from the areas where the strawberries are or he goes over and tries to take some off the table.

Well, that is all for now it almost 1am and i have a hunnydo list a mile long for tomorrow so I better get some sleep.

WOW

Well I have no idea wherer to start, so many cool things have happened in the last 2 weeks. I guess I will start with the road trip, after 2 days of driving through the flattest states on earth, we learned that you should never take the advise of a hot waitress. A young women in Laramie, WY told my Dad and I that if you took Hwy 238 instead of 80 you would save 4 hours and have stunning scenery. I will give here credit on the stunning scenery but, by the end of the day, we had drove an extra 200+ miles and went over several mountain passes, turning what was supposed to be a 9-10 hour day into an 15-16 hour day. The following day from Boise, ID to Eugene was an easy drive and very beautiful going over the Cascade mountains, it was great to see Heather and Zach after almost a week of being apart, that was the longest I had ever been away from Zach.

WE MADE IT

We have been super busy so I don't have much time to write right now, but I promise I will write in depth tomorrow about the road trip and what we have been doing. To give you and idea here are a couple pictures of Zach at the Pacific Ocean.

On the road

Well, after 2 days of driving on the flat plans we ascended into Laramie, WY today, and it just got really cold. Laramie is at about 7000' so thing happen really quick here as far as the weather goes. It went from 72 to 50 in about an hour with 40mph wind gust to help thing along.

The first day was to Lincoln,NE it was a nice, flat drive and we dodged really bad thunderstorms all day. This morning we got up and played golf at Pioneer Golf Course, man what a nice course, it was built in 1930. We were going to play tomorrow morning in Laramie but it is supposed to be 40 with 40mph wind gusts so we are going to leave and head to Boise and try to play there in the afternoon.

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Here we go

I only have a few minutes to write before my Dad and I depart on our 2400 mile journey to Eugene, OR. I would like to say thanks to the Sean, Mark, Mark, Lou, Ann and Georgean for all their help, guidance and friendship over the last 2 years we will truly miss you.

The last three days have been totally draining. The movers took up Monday along with Dad and Chris painting the south side of the house and it looks great. On Tuesday it stressful watching everything you own get put on a truck. The whole time hoping that they didn't take your toothbrush. Then on Wednesday trying to get the house cleaned with Dad and Chris, so if it gets shown it won't look like a bomb went off inside. I hope it sells quick because the thought of a double mortgage payments is freaking use out a little bit.

I am going to try to post every night along the way, but that idea hinges on the hotel having a computer i can use.

scott