I loved that this book is told from the perspective of the dog and that it takes place in the Pacific Northwest. It reminded me a lot of “A Dog’s Purpose” by W. Bruce Cameron which I also really liked.
Archive for May 25th 2012
Memorial Day Weekend started a little early for us since the boys didn’t have school today, so we are going to be enjoying a four day weekend. There is no complaining around here about that. The weather was beautiful today so we decided to do two things that I have really wanted to do with the kids for over a year now and we FINALLY got around to doing them today!
Our first stop was the OHSU tram. This was a surprise for the boys…they had no idea this was on the agenda for the day. We have seen them numerous times and about freaked out the first time we saw them and today we got to actually ride them.
This is what they look like. There are two of them…this is the one we weren’t riding that passed us while we were up in the air.
There’s quite a view from up there…see Mount St. Helens in the background?
So we rode up to the top where all of the hospitals are and then stayed on and rode back down. The only part that’s a little disconcerting is when you sway a little…I wouldn’t want to be up there on a windy day, that’s for sure.
Then we had lunch and headed to the Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks and Minerals. Liam learned about rocks and minerals in third grade, so this place has been on my radar for a while. Colm was not at all interested in going to this place, but it turned out that it was actually kind of cool. (Like I knew it would be.) 🙂
These were one of our favorites…they look fuzzy.
Glow in the dark rocks…
Pretty rocks…
They also have a ton of fossils and one whole huge room that is full (and I mean FULL) of petrified trees.
At the end the kids get to dig through a pile of rocks and take one home. The boys were determined to find a fossil and/or a thunder rock in that pile and, although it took a lot of digging, they were successful.
