M&R's Vacation Stories

If you'd like to skip my ramblings, here's all the  Part 2 images .  Images are in order of the story. August 17th - Vancouver Finally a day where we were not stressed for time or had a list of things we needed to accomplish for the day.  We slept in, well 930 is sleeping in to me at least and Rebe was shocked that I woke her up so late, but like I said we didn’t have anything to do or anywhere to be.  It was now breakfast time and of course we had to score another great meal, and the internet led us to the Templeton.  Templeton in Vancouver It was tiny diner right around the corner from our hotel, and classic in the diner sense.  It was small, about 6 booths and 10 spaces at the counter, and there was one young lady running the entire diner with no notepad and just doing it without thinking.  She was serving, taking payments, and managing new patrons that walked in and had to wait in the non existent waiting area.  Food was good, w...

Portland and Vancouver If you'd like to skip my ramblings, here's all the Part 1 images .  Images are in order of the story. August 12th -  Like the cruise trip I previously posted, no trip is without its drama.  Rebe was supposed to come home on Wednesday August 10th but due to weather she didn’t catch a helicopter out until…well never.  Poor Rebe had to catch the “crew boat” on the Gulf of Mexico’s rough seas at 1am Friday morning to get back to shore at 7am.  Then drive to New Orleans to catch a flight back to Houston, only to be home for a couple of hours and then head right back to the airport.  At the end of this trip and her next rotation on the rig, it’ll be nine weeks since she spent at night at the house :( With all that said, we made the flight with plenty of time and no other drama popped up on our way to the airport.  The plane was delayed for “operational issues,” then the weather had our fight path going over Arkansa...