End of Our Trip

I decided I better get off my duff and finish our wonderful summer trip that we took with our grandson Tony aka The Sea Weasel. It was a fun trip and I can't tell you how much we enjoyed it. Yes it was a lot of driving but through the most beautiful scenery in the world. So here is the final installment of the trip.


Me and my handsome son in his living room in Portland. It was so good to see him and spend some time with him. The older they get the less time there is to really enjoy them cause they have their own lives, so this Mama realllllllly enjoyed this visit with her biggest baby

We took a river cruise and had lunch on the Portland Spirit River Cruise. It was very pleasant and we enjoyed ourselves. On the cruise up the river there was a boat with some girls who were flashing their boobs to the ship's passengers and Tony and Cliff both missed it (drats the luck). So Cliff and Tony were on the look out on the way back however, the coast guard had been alerted and had the girls boat pulled over and the officers were making the boob flashing perpetrators get off the river. Tony and Cliff thought it was a blatant case of "police brutality" but towards them not the girls (HA)

Us toasting our good fortune to be lucky enough to be enjoying a fine meal and cocktail's on a nice cruise boat. There was even a piano player taking requests and Tony wanted her to play some AC/DC but to no avail! He said "Some people just don't understand good music!" I agree

Me and my baby just floating down the river of love!!!!!!

The world traveled Sea Weasel enjoying his beverage as they would while dining at the Hoisington Estate (inside joke)

The Willamette River and our sweet ride

We took a tour of the Portland Underground (you know us always looking for ghosts) and this Wooden Indian was part of the tour. They told the story that the Shanghai Tunnels were famous for "shanghaiing men and selling them to the sea captains from just after the Civil War up until the early 1940's. This Indian was supposedly sold to a sea captain wrapped in a tarp. The captain was told that the Indian was "dead drunk" and would wake up far out to sea. The sea captain paid $75 dollars for him when the going rate was $50 because he was so big!!! When he found out it was not a real man they threw him over board and he washed back up on shore and was recovered. They say this is the real guy hummmmmmmmmmmmmm

Cell where the shanghaied men and women who were sold into white slavery were held

Captain Jack Tony ready to go into the Shanghai Tunnels . This may be his last adventure folks, will he come back alive or be "Shanghaied" and lost forever!!!

Tony and Toby playing guitars in Toby's music room

Tony's house in Beaverton. It was so nice and green with a really nice patio and back yard

The Sea Weasel and The Weak Sauce (Tony always has strange names for everyone) Below it's the Sea Weasel and The Weakness in the Shanghai Tunnels

These are kinda hard to see but they are sea lions in the sea lion cave pictured below. Tony wanted to get the paint ball guns out of the car and shoot them. He didn't want to hurt them just decorate them up a nit with color

Sea Lion Cave on the coast

Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox

Giant Redwood that has a house made in it. Really it's a gift shop but it was kinda cool anyway.

Cliff and Tony in the giant redwoods