Climb Hills

     Yesterday Tessa and I went on our first ride together of the trip. Going west of Portland and blindly going up a category two hill climb with and average of a 5.1% grade ( I know that doesn't sound like much but its pretty F@#$ing steep!) and then riding a hilltop road toward the rose gardens and back down into the pearl. We had no idea what we were getting ourselves into but that is what I love about cycling. About half way up the climb I turned back down the hill to go find Tessa and cheer her on only to find her panting in exhaustion. We stop to catch our breathes thinking of just turning around and cruising down the hill back into Portland, but no little Tessa wanted to carry on! We got back on our saddles and kept our legs spinning dreaming of the top.

I'm King of the world!

This is Tessa's French Alps finish face! Words can not describe the look on her face when she finally made it to the top with me.  Her face was blushed red and sweat dripping off her brow. Ironically we then turned onto a road named Skyline the oddly looked a lot like the skyline we grew up by. Tessa is now addicted to the pain and suffering of getting up a giant hill, and the relief and glory of going back down. . . I'm very proud of her :)


Parker.

meandering portland...

so, we have been in portland since saturday morning. in that time we have consumed cart food, some amazing coffee, and lots of vitamin d from the sun. we are super stoked because portland served as a reunion with megan as well! we attended her sisters wedding where we all got down with some serious dance moves. here is a sneak peak of some of the things that we three stooges have gotten into these last few days...  

wedding bronco twinsies 

dapper parker (i'm a lucky girl!)

and bestie reunions (best ever.)

not to mention... we got to go to volcano cones and see melissa! 

yum yum yum

banana ice cream delights!

it actually helped with the after wedding hangover.

here is all of us loving life.

cheers to portland and naked bike riders!

house camping.

okay, so we are officially house camping. the parents have come and gone in a whirlwind, and we are left with nothing but our camping supplies and stuff to clean the house. thursday is coming faster then we imagined, which is our goal for leaving bend... hopefully we will make it happen! this week has been hectic, trying to fit as much of the fun stuff in between the stuff that needs to be done. 

here is a little taste of what we have been doing... 

watching bike races

drinking delicious coffee from backporch

going away parties with babies on bikes

lake lovelies

and flying cars!

bend is so good to us, we are really going to miss it!