Weekend ride with Carl

Carl and I went on a nice little weekend ride around Northwest Oregon over the weekend.  On Saturday we stopped in Newberg to wish Anne safe travels and take her on a short ride before she heads to Ukraine for two years.  We stayed the night at Rick’s house to attend one of his fabulous parties.  This morning we stopped in Sherwood to pick up Eileen and bring her back to Corvallis.

Carl at a rest stop in the mountains outside of Willamina.
My big white bike is prettier 🙂
This proves that I actually was there!
In Newberg
Eileen getting dressed

Total distance: about 350 miles.

Gas stop 1: 86.2 miles (including 20 undocumented miles from Friday when I was testing the bike).  1.96 gallons.  43.98 mpg.

Gas stop 2: 101.3 miles. 1.948 gallons.  52.00 mpg.

Gas stop 3: 110.7 miles. 2.180 gallons. 50.78 mpg.

Our Route Map

Halloween 2009

This year’s Halloween was pretty epic.  It got off to a slow start but by the end of the night everyone was having a good time.  Here are some photos to prove it.

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Emily as a Zombie, Carl as a guy with a severed leg, and Matt as a grad student.

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Steve drinking it up.

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My costume.

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Jenna as Lady Gaga.

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Jesus and Lady Gaga: together at last!  One night only!

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And lo Jesus hath come down from heaven for a can of Hams.

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Reanimate the dead: Check!

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Sharon, Daniel, and Steve.

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Jesus is a ladies man.

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Dan came as a fully functional box of Franzia.

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This is a FireFox costume.  FireFox as in the web browser. So awesome!

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Someone dressed up as BookFace from The Office and someone dressed up as Fall?

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Our airplane captain friend who likes to get touchy-feely with the ladies when he is drunk.

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He got down on his knees and pleased Jesus.

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Reanimating the dead with some special Jesus Juice.

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Perhaps the scariest costume of the evening.

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Amber B not wanting a photo taken.

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Lady Gaga’s mid-evening costume change.

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Looks like we have an Anchor Man on the right.

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Pippy Longstockings and a zombie.

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Jacob as Dr Horrible.

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Jesus loves his Hams!

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A stripper and Stacey playing beer pong.

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