Oregon Adventures (belated) Chapter 2!

Vicki—this one is dedicated to you! Thanks for bugging us to get the next blogs up! Here we go! Now where did we leave off... • Our moving van/semi is shown below with Corey's car being towed behind. (if this truck is 26 feet, plus the front portion, plus the length of the car towed... well, you do the math, it is LONG!) Going up the Cuesta grade was quite an adventure...a slow adventure. This beast would only get up to 25mph going up! We had huge semi-trucks passing us on the left. We just had to sit back and laugh. In this picture you can see Corey (the normally speedy driver) enjoying a (forced) leisurely drive. (If you can see the speedometer... it is only at 25!) Okay—so maybe his face started out more like the picture below! (ohhh, so determined! Here he is almost breaking 20mph!) The truck was diesel, which was nice because it was a lot cheaper than unleaded gas. It had a 50 gallon tank... most places would not let us fuel up the entire way... stopping at $100. We just had to get a picture of the momentous occasion—it is not every day you see $100 on the gas pump! (though with gas prices continually going up... maybe this won't be so rare!) We stayed the night with stella/mom and hit the road quite early! Katie and mom woke up to eat breakfast with us (how sweet) and then promptly went back to sleep! Two hours away from Eugene we decided to pull the kitties up front with us (until then they had been in their own "kittie coach", having free reign in the car being towed). These are a few shots of how they first reacted to the change of scenery. Frou-Frou has was quite "meowy". Feist and Donna both join in on the meows! Frou-Frou and Feist started to calm down and really enjoy the plush nap setting, while Donna was still a bit frazzled, but she eventually calmed down as well. The beautiful Oregon highway! What a trip! (yes, that is a semi just having passed our moving truck!) Upon arriving we had some amazing movers show up! (thanks to Nik and Ekklesia church!) For those who have been following our blog... remember our road trip last summer? (posted last July titled day 32 & 33) Well, we ended up keeping in contact with our Eugene friends at Ekklesia and are now going to that church. (Back when we heard about this church from Nik back a year ago, it was held in the pastor, Wesley's home and now has grown to filling out a community center). It reminds me of being in the Vet's Hall back at shoreline nine years ago! If you are interested in finding out more about the church we are stoked to attend go to: www.ekklesiaeugene.org Seven awesome people showed up to help us unload the beast! It was accomplished in less than two hours. Praise the Lord! He has truly provided for us! We are making lots of new friends and having great fellowship already in this short time here in Eugene. yahoo!!!!!! More to come!