We have now been in Oregon for 3 days on our way back to Las Vegas.  We were in Portland for 2 and a half of those days.  It was kinda nice.  The city is jam packed with tons of old buildings and lots of bridges.  Unfortunately I didn't get any pictures, but we were kinda overwhelmed from the prior days experiences.  Yesterday, we just spent the day doing what we wanted.  We drove around a little, found a REAL ghetto Walmart (I thought the one on Nellis & Charleston was ghetto), this place reeked of ghetto before I even walked into the place!  It gave us a good laugh because we haven't been around an ghetto fabulous for a few months :)  What we have been around is a bunch of old people....everywhere we turned there was old people.  I'm not old, but Oak Harbor made me feel old.  Josh said the same thing before I even told him what I was feeling.  Whenever we would go somewhere, my family was always the youngest people around.  It was awful. 

The sun so far has been heavenly.  Nicole said today after putting on shorts..."Look, I glow!" while pointing a her legs.  I laughed because mine are exactly the same.  Josh had on his sunglasses when he got out of the moving van and said..."I haven't been able to wear these in months!"  And another thing, we're all wearing shorts...it's summer time and we're actually finally able to wear shorts and a t-shirt, instead of long pants, hoodies and jackets.  I'm starting to feel like me again. 

Today was a good day, a bit emotional, but all in all good.  Josh met with Elder Paul Johnson.  We kinda messed up his schedule, but it wasn't our fault.  Someone told us the wrong day to meet with him, but he made some changes to see us because we had come so far, to that point.  Josh met with him for what seemed like forever, I met with him for about 10 minutes.  I'm not going to write about what we discussed, because it's rather personal and that's how I'd like to keep it.  Anyway, my family in now back to the way it should have been all along...

We are now in another motel room resting for the rest of the day.  I am so tired.  I have homework I am suppose to do, but don't really have a desire to do it right now.  I've had so much on my mind the past few days, I'm having a hard time even concentrating.  Plus I need to have some time to think about what I want to write.  So with that being said...I better finish this so I can think about what I'm going to write my paper about....