Saturdays Blast

Jaxson has become a giant among children

Sophia and Roman have become Giants

Bella and Ava – two sweet girls

The Zoo animals look’n kool

Wife is not amused

City Center Trip

City Center roof tops (on overpass)

Passing the Rose Garden – headed over the bridge

Entering City Center

Street view City Center

View of a side street

City Center Business

More street view – City Center

Old portion of city center

City Center apparments

City Center Appartments and park

Looking up the side of apparments – City Center

Apparmtents – City Center

Albers Milling Company – Historic site

We had a blast on Saturday.  We went down to Portland and drove around the City Center for a while.  We didn’t even scratch the surface so there will be more to look at. 

 

Not much is happening on the job front.  I am working with an outplacement service that Boise is paying for but they just help you get ready for and do a search.  There are some issues we need to work through.

A busy Saturday

The water is high in the Columbia River and almost to the railroad track

Entering Washington as we go on our little safari

This tunnel is on Highway North on our way to Fort Columbia

Fort Columbia sign

This is in the tunnel on highway 101 by Fort Columbia

Information sign at Fort Columbia

One of the main bunkers at Fort Columbia

A bunker that is hiddend behind the trees at Fort Columbia

Bunker command post at Fort Columbia

Tunnel on Highway 101 South by Fort Columbia

Entering Oregon on the bridge over the Columbia River

Headed back into Astoria OR from Washington, this is most of the way over the river

Today I had to go into work as the mill was being brought back up.  Last week we had a huge electrical outage due to a transformer that blew.  After work I came back and gathered up the children to go for a ride.  We were gone pretty much all afternoon.  Because of the rain it was more of a ride.  We didn’t get out of the vehicle but we did see some cool stuff.

Some time ago we went to Fort Stevens just outside of Hammond OR.  This fort was active during World War Two and was the only part of the mainland USA that was attacked.  Unfortunately, the sub commander didn’t know what he was doing so the Fort held it’s fire.  They didn’t want to give away their position.  The sub’s fire went over the fort and hit harmlessly.

This Fort Columbia is the sister for on the other side of the Columbia.  These two forts protected the mouth of the Columbia River since the 1800′s.  We are going to have to go back and see it when we can walk around.

We are still getting rain and the water is getting higher all over the place.  the Columbia is visually higher than I have ever seen it.  Hopefully the rain will take a break and so that the water can drain out to the Ocean.