this is post #50!!
And my blog is about to celebrate its first Birthday!!
June has been quite an eventful month! I'll try to re-cap and pick only the best pictures from each event.
First thing in June: Dave came to visit! We had an awesome and jam-packed weekend while he was here, including a whirlwind tour of the city and a trip to the gorge/mt. hood. The first pic is me enjoying the water falling on my super short hair on a short hike in the gorge.
And here is what fun we had near Timberline lodge--Dan and Dave rolling down the snow-covered hill in tee-shirts and shorts:
Although out of chronological order (this was Saturday night), Dave took these next pictures of Dan and I "running" our 5k. Dan is a very athletic guy, and he barely broke a sweat/breathed heavily the whole run. I could barely keep up a trot by the end, was super sweaty, and could barely breathe. BUT I did finish! With no stopping. (and with lots of encouragement from Dan).
I don't know if you can tell from my expression, but running is just not my thing.
So the next great adventure was Dan's first triathlon. He has been doing a little bit of training (although not much) and I think it surprised him how well he did! I was amazed just watching these people (dan included) running from sport to sport with such apparant ease. The race was a 1/2 mile swim, a 12 mile bike ride, and a 5k run. Dan did the whole thing in an hour and 1/2. Pretty impressive!! Here, he is sharing his victory "completion" medal with Claire:
Which brings us to this weekend..Dan's dad is here for a second visit! He is our only 2-time visitor, and we have tried to make his second visit as exciting as the first. At the very least, the weather is better, because his first visit was during the daily rain and mudslides of November.
Saturday we went to the gorge and checked out the Vista House:
And took a short hike to Bridal Veil Falls:
Then we went to the Fish Hatchery and learned all about how they breed fish. Even the gritty details about how they harvest the sperm and eggs from the fish. That's one video I don't need to see again.
Here are the very very cute and beautiful Rainbow trout that we fed with little pellets from a machine. I mean they were CUTE!! They jumped around and swam QuiCKly to any pellets we threw in.
And the handy fish directional signs we followed throughout the hatchery.
I don't have a picture, but tonight we went to see STOMP! It was very very fun and there were a lot of things I didn't remember from the first time I saw it with my family about 10 years ago in Las Vegas.
So that is the wrap-up for June..if you want to contact me next week, you'll have to text me because....................no voice! It's time for ASL Immersion week #2!!! This is the first of two immersion installments for me this summer. I will be at WSD in Vancouver next week, then I'll do another one at the New Mexico School for the Deaf this July along our road trip back East.
Hope all is well! Happy early 4th!
2 comments:
Ok, so... in the second picture, with the snow, why does that little kid on the left have his pants pulled down below his butt? And I'm assuming that he's wearing underwear and just has a giant wedgie, because even *I* am not that pale.
And before it occurred to me that ASL Immersion week was probably to practice your ASL, and/or to familiarize yourself with what it's like not to be able to talk, my first thought was, "Wait, deaf people can't hear -- they're not necessarily mute! Why wouldn't she be able to talk? I mean, it makes sense that people wouldn't be able to call her b/c she couldn't hear them. But why couldn't she at least talk to people?"
Clearly, the insomnia that I have been battling for the last week or so has had an effect on my brain.
winnie your thought is actually pretty smart! (not surprising, you're a smart cookie). a lot of people do think deaf people can't talk..which you know isn't true. but yes, you're right. the idea of the program is to impove one's expressive and receptive skill in ASL, and a component of that is also experiencing what it is like to rely on visual communication and trying to communicate with people who won't give you the time of day because you aren't speaking English. pretty interesting, a different perspective
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