Friday Marilyn was home early in the afternoon, with the plan to depart by 2:00 or 2:15. I held things up, so we didn't leave until past 2:30. We ended up in terrible traffic for much of the trip to Spirit Mountain Casino in Grand Ronde ( Read more... )

Marilyn and I received an invitation from our friend (and festival board member) Richard H. to go and tour a 14 million dollar mansion today -- and we decided 'why not?' It was interesting! He sent the invite to certain people, and you could only get the address 24 hours prior to the event! Attendance was purely by invitation only. In our case, we ( Read more... )