nate and jan are married

On May 2nd, 2007 we did it. We went to the courthouse and got married. Well, actually you have to plan ahead for these things so we went the friday before, got a marriage license and then went on wednesday and got married.

We had already planned to go to Portland, Oregon for a 6 day vacation so when we moved the wedding up, it became our honeymoon. I did have to work on wednesday in Portland but that still gave us 5 days to enjoy an area that we were both super excited about visiting.

We flew in saturday morning and arrived in Portland at noon or so. This was the first time either of us had ever been to the Northwest so we wanted to do so many things. Our original plan for saturday was to eat some lunch at Burgerville and then walk around Portland and find someplace to celebrate cinco de mayo. After finding out there were no Burgervilles downtown, Jan made the first executive decision to go visit some wineries. It was already 2:30 by now so i was not sure how much we would see. The short version is that we go to 3 wineries, did tastings at all three and filled up a case with wine to bring home with us.




We were able to make it back to the hotel safely and then did what everyone would do after three wineries, we went in search of a brewpub. We found Bridgeport Brewery and Bakery.




The Next morning we woke up and headed for the hills...



Exercise #2 of the day was at ?? falls. A quick jump out of the car became a 3 mile hike to the top of the falls.


After 20 + miles of hiking and running, it was time for food.






then we headed for the ocean



the happy couple



in seattle



we get to hang out with meghan and her soon to be husband, Alden


the space needle.....

and pike place market....

and the first starbucks....

and off to the mountain...

snow.....

more of the mountain.... and THE hike













Back to the waterfalls....