Day 4 Traveling

Woke up Sunday and got loaded up to head from Portland to Eugene. We headed over to my cousin's to collect her and her husband and daughter(only child of 2 only children....she's just a WEE bit doted on :-) and then headed out...only to head back 2 min later after the toddler upended her mothers coffee cup all over her jeans. The drive down wasn't bad, it really reminded me of what winter in Oregon is like....rainy :-)

We got to Dad's mom's about 1230, and hung out for about 20 min before we headed to the restaurant to meet with my parents, maternal grandparents, Aunt/Uncle, and most of my siblings(M didn't arrive till Monday). We pretty well invaded them...took up 3 tables and space for 16. angie_di was feeling a touch better but still shaky....She did have lunch and manage to keep it down, but we both opted out of shopping and headed directly to Oakland with Dad and Kyle. It was a pretty quiet day beyond that..didn't do much besides rest up.

Day 5

angie_di and I dragged Mom out shopping in Roseburg. We managed to get just about everyone shopped for, barring my sister and mom...and then we realized that we'd left the bag from Disney in my Aunt's SUV in Portland...urgh, especially since it had my brother's present in it.

When we got home I was banished to the Den(hereafter referred to as the Bat Cave) while wrapping occurred, so I dug out my laptop and started catching up on news and LJ(Its amazing...this is the first vacation in 5 years where I did NOT need to be checking email for work daily...and I rather enjoyed it) since I'd been offline pretty much since Tuesday. My youngest brother turned up around 6, with the dog. I somewhat pity him having to drive 1300 miles with that doofus of a dog in the backseat of his truck. I still thought he had his old S10 pickup and felt REALLY bad for him...but then discovered he'd upgraded to a brand new Colorado Crew Cab, so not as bad but she still barked in his ear if someone walked near the truck.

The downside to the day was that angie_di took a turn for the worse last night, and I ended up having to boot my brother out to the parents trailer and giving her his bed while I slept on the couch. I was starting to get REALLY worried, because this had gone on for nearly 3 days, but she woke up Xmas morning all bouncy and full of energy(it only lasted 3 hours before she crashed and slept) and she managed to eat and felt relatively ok all day. So I think she's recovering. Color me MUCH relieved.