Keeping a blog current is hard work...

We planned to continue writing in the blog about our experiences in Portland, however, it hasn't really happened.  We planned on the updates being less frequent, but not to this extent.  Between Jared starting a new job, Mary Grace's full-time job and job search which nearly amounts to a full time job, neither of us have found the time.  So now it is the first day of a new year, maybe we write more, maybe this will be the last entry.  Here are a few of the highlights of the last 40 days

• Got all our furniture in the 1st 5 days of living here;
• We both had our first Ikea experience
• Went to a winter beer festival;
• Gone to restaurants in our neighborhood (Nob Hill) and the Pearl (newly redeveloped downtown hood);
• Experienced three eastside (of the Williamette River) neighborhoods, had some good pizza, pho, and Christmas Lights (a 2-block street with an ordinance that mandates Christmas Lights);
• Went to one of our neighborhood theaters and had some local beer and split a popcorn;
• Celebrated Christmas and New Years; 
• Thank you for all the presents and cards, each one was wonderful;
• The plan tomorrow is to go to the Oregon Coast 
• Astoria (where Goonies was filmed) is 1:45 minutes away;
• Maybe we'll go visit Mikey's House
• Ocean temperature is 42 degrees
• Polar Bear Plunge???