Day 3127

 I woke up at 7:30 and played games until I got up at 8.  Then it was pet stuff and breakfast before leaving for Beaverton.  We left at 8:45 because traffic looked dicey (the dental appointments were at 10).

Google was right about the traffic.  I5 was a parking lot just past the Aurora exit.  I got off there and got back on at the Canby entrance.  Traffic was still really slow, so I took the Camping World route.  That turned oout to be a mistake because the traffic cleared up immediately after Wilsonville.  We continued up to 217 with traffic normal.  It slowed to stop and go at Tigard.  I put up with it until Scholl's Ferry.  I got off there and went up to Beaverton on Hall.

We still managed to get to the Dentist in an hour.  We waited until 10 and then had simultaneous appointments.  They took about an hour.  I passed, no problems.  When we were done we went to Bevel's.

We looked at the replacement stones for Ellen's ring.  They're great.  We also looked at the meteorite earrings and decided to buy them.  Ellen saw another pair that she liked.  The design was intricate and the workmanship was fantastic, so we bought them, too.  I think the whole bill was just short of $5K.

After that we went to the Japanese store across the street and bought a couple of items.  Then we met Hooch at Breakside for lunch.  We had lunch and talked until about 3.  I figured that we might have stayed a little too late.  I was right.  217 and I5 were parking lots all the way down to Wilsonville.  We decidee to go through Newberg.

There was a lot of traffic all the way from Beaverton to Sherwood.  99 was OK until we got near Newberg.  Then it was a 3/4 mile traffic jam at the first light.  Ellen found a back way to the St. Paul highway and we took that.

Eventually we got to French Prairie.  We stopped at the farm store and bought some strawberries.  There was still more traffic, but lighter, all the way to Concomly.  The trip back took an hour, maybe a little more, including the stop.

We started watching videos.  I ended up napping.  Dinner was part of lunch's sandwich followed by more videos until bedtime.