Sunny and I joined Alvin and Nora on Stevens Pass to go inner tubing!

My family flew down to Tennessee to visit Mark and his family at Fort Campbell. Mark lives in Clarksville, which is about 30 minutes outside Nashville. It was nice to see Mark, I miss my brother. His family seems to be doing well, but they have grown since they moved here from Fort Lewis. We were in Clarksville for five days. During that time we we went sightseeing at mansions around Tennessee, to the Corvette factory in Kentucky, and we ate at every Southern restaurant we could find. We had catfish and hushpuppies with every meal. I could write a lot more about this trip, but I’ll leave that up to my travel blog. Check out more photos in my gallery here.

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Sunny and I drove to Portland to visit the Portland Art Museum. The museum had an exhibit of ballerinas by Edgar Degas. We saw ballerinas by Degas in Paris and loved them. They are graceful and realistic and entertaining. After we left the museum we walked around the city center. We found the biggest Banana Republic we had ever visited. For dinner we ate at a Greek restaurant. There was a really fun party going on at the restaurant which included the owner passing around shots of vodka. Loud and fun!