The Here And Now

So that brings us from Seattle to Bend, OR. Kris and I arrived last Thursday to beautiful weather, 70 and sunny for two days. We spent the next 4 days finding jobs and looking for apartments.

I will be working for an online outfitter doing customer service work. Hopefully that will be good and if not I'll have more time to ski... Kris has signed on with a company for per diem work which pays enough in two days to cover my entire weeks paycheck =o) I love that woman!

We found a quaint (not), little (haha) place in town for ourselves but can't move in until the 3rd. In actuality the place is a palace, four bedrooms and three baths, not to mention two decks. We will be moving into the master bedroom which is equipped with its own bathroom complete with jet tub, boohya! One of the other three bedrooms will be occupied by Tony, a good friend from the island. We may also find another roommate to make rent cheaper but it's not necessary.

Bend is sick. If you're down in the valley it's mild and usually quite nice. Up in the mountains we've already got loads of snow. We are 25 minutes from the ski mountain and other winter activities and we're 40 minutes from one of the most sweetest climbing destinations in the country, Smith Rock.

Check out the pics. The ones from Smith Rock are from Saturday, the rest are from up in the mountains Monday and Wednesday. I can tell we are going to get along quite nicely here in Bend, OR. And they are calling for the biggest winter in a decade to boot!

Scott I intend to send you that trail map of Bachelor as soon as I can get through the gates to get one!