I know I owe Italy pictures. I promise I will get there. Life hasn't been much other than work. I had a class last fri/sat in Portland so that meant I worked the previous sunday since my vacation is all gone and I didn't want to take a day unpaid. So that means I've had 2 days off in about 3 weeks. ugh. I am tired!

Of course my class was the nicest weekend we've had yet (and probably the only 2 days all summer that will be close to 90) so I was stuck sitting inside when it was gorgeous outside.

Since I was down there Craig and I decided to go see his grandpa who lives about 1.5 hrs outside of portland. I have never met him, Craig hasn't seen him since either 2005 or 2006. It's a long story but Craig's dad grew up in foster care so really how much of a dad/grandpa has he been? Anyhow, it was a trip! His grandpa is married to this lady who is 20 yrs younger than him but probably in worse health. We called ahead so they could get themselves ready since they insisted on going out to dinner (we offered to bring pizza or subs or something but it 'gives us heartburn'). Well it still took them an hour to get out the door! Then his wife who rides in a wheel chair for stuff like that insisted on sitting in a real chair at the table which was another whole ordeal. As soon as craig got up from the table to go to the bathroom the wife says to me "young lady are you a christian?" Really?! Odd how she had to wait for craig to leave to ask that. She also told me about 30 times how cute I am (it was a little much) and how nice of butt I have! Yes she did. His grandpa said loudly how the waitress was fat and she was standing about 2 feet away! And those are just the highlights of the evening. Let me just say I'm glad he's only sees them about every 5 yrs.