Portland, Oregon

I head up to Portland to see my Dad every year for Thanksgiving. It's a nice vacation to relax, spend time with family, and eat lots of turkey. Recently, my Dad moved into a new house in northwest Portland. It was a pretty cool place that he spent a lot of time renevating. As I got picked up at the airport I was greeted by a new puppy. It was a half jack russel and half chihuahua. It was pretty sweet! Totally mellow and pretty smart too. I'm not much of an animal person but this little guy was sweet. The Thanksgiving meal was nice and so was spending time with my Dad, sister, and Chris.

The end of the party mansion

A little over a year ago my roomate Jeff and I moved to downtown Santa Barbara. It was an amazing house which we were going to share with three other people. I knew one person and had met the other two just a couple of times. I was a little nervous living with a bunch of roommates, not to mention I didn't know them very well.

On the first day that we were all at the house we cracked open a few beers and looked off the balcony to a view of beautiful dowtown Santa Barbara. My new roomate Michael said that it was going to be the best year while living in S.B. I had just lived an amazing summer in Isla Vista, so I was pretty skeptical. Well, he was close, it wasn't the best year in S.B., it was the best 14 months!