2 Adults 2 Kids » state parks http://2adults2kids.com Seeing the world....on a budget. Tue, 21 Jul 2009 03:29:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 Ode to Oregon http://2adults2kids.com/2008/08/10/ode-to-oregon/ http://2adults2kids.com/2008/08/10/ode-to-oregon/#comments Sun, 10 Aug 2008 21:31:05 +0000 KJ http://2adults2kids.com/?p=174 This trip never ceases to amaze me. CM had told me that Oregon has the only rain forest in America, so we decided to go and check them out. We looked a map and decided to spend a few days at Silver Falls State Park. Before we even got to the park I was amazed at how beautiful Oregon was. Who knew?

The coast was so green. The trees, the grass, the plants, everything! Everything was so lush and fresh and alive. It was very different from what we saw driving through the Mojave.

Unfortunately, the kids missed a lot of the scenery because we started driving before they woke up, but they seemed pretty in to it once they started looking out of their windows.

The roads are so curvy and most of the buildings we saw were either farm houses, Ma and Pa groceries, or gas stations. Every town we drove through seemed so quaint and full of character. Widget took plenty of pictures. Seeing all of the farmland made me want to get out and try my hand at growing something.

The park itself was amazing. As it turned out, they had 10 waterfalls! We hiked to 3 of them. We were even able to walk through caves that went behind the falls. They were so beautiful. At the end of the day Widget said he really liked hiking. I was happy. Finally, something he didn’t cry about doing!

Today we are heading to Glacier National Park. That reminds me of something we didn’t anticipate in Oregon — No Cellphone Signal! So much for more bars in more places! I’m guessing we won’t get much of a signal in Montana either.

We’ll see.

**Note: I tried to include a pic, but I couldn’t with my on again off again signal!

]]> http://2adults2kids.com/2008/08/10/ode-to-oregon/feed/ 23 Step 1: Admit You Have a Problem (KJ) http://2adults2kids.com/2008/05/31/step-1-admit-you-have-a-problem-kj/ http://2adults2kids.com/2008/05/31/step-1-admit-you-have-a-problem-kj/#comments Sat, 31 May 2008 13:35:58 +0000 KJ http://2adults2kids.com/?p=14 My entire computer is gone and I feel empty.  It’s lame, but true.  All these people from Craigslist kept writing me questions about its specs and when could they pick it up.  I told CM it was the equivalent of other women writing me about my husband and I was forced to say, “Yeah, you should really sleep with him. He’s great. He’s gonna rock your world.”  Seriously? Yeah, seriously.  

That computer is MY BABY! I know the old saying, “You can’t take it with you when you go.” But at least when you “go” you don’t have to see the empty computer desk taunting you.  This morning CM is at the grocery store.  I’m tempted to pack up the kids and head straight to the Apple store for a bigger, better computer and ditch this whole RV’ing thing.  Then I tabbed over to a browser window I had opened yesterday and I saw this:

I want to show my kids places like these.

….Or maybe I can just set it as my wallpaper on my shiny new 30″ cinema display and my kids can “see” it every day!

“I have shamed myself….”

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