So I flew into Portland on Tuesday and spent most of Wednsday there too. It's an awsome city. Probablly the coolest city I've ever been too. It was very compact and busy like New York, but it was very laid back and natural at the same time. oregon is really beautiful I'm in Eugene now which is in the Willamette River valley, which reminds me of the Hill Country, except with douglas fir trees. There are a lot of oak trees, sweet gums and rhododendrons here and I didn't expect that. Eugene isn't what I was expecting, and initially I was pretty disappointed, but it is starting to grow on me, and I really love the school here. They have some pretty rivers that run by campus and we went walking out there today and we
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