christine gacharna | a Northern Virginia photo B L o G » Oregon http://christinegacharna.com/blog maternity, newborn, baby, children + family Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:44:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Christopher http://christinegacharna.com/blog/2009/09/23/christopher/ http://christinegacharna.com/blog/2009/09/23/christopher/#comments Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:08:58 +0000 christine http://christinegacharna.com/blog/?p=3251 0034_Cornett 0049_Cornett 0073_Cornett-2 0091_Cornett 0095_Cornett 0106_Cornett-2 0115_Cornett 0132_Cornett 0137_Cornett 0135_Cornett 0176_Cornett

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]]> http://christinegacharna.com/blog/2009/09/23/christopher/feed/ 2 sandwiched somewhere between Southern California and Seattle http://christinegacharna.com/blog/2008/11/22/sandwiched-somewhere-between-southern-california-and-seattle/ http://christinegacharna.com/blog/2008/11/22/sandwiched-somewhere-between-southern-california-and-seattle/#comments Sat, 22 Nov 2008 22:30:31 +0000 christine http://christinegacharna.com/blog/?p=1427 is Lakeview High School. This morning, I caught up to my classmate Mark Beagle for coffee and my son captured us as we stood in between California Pizza Kitchen and Starbucks.

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]]> http://christinegacharna.com/blog/2008/11/22/sandwiched-somewhere-between-southern-california-and-seattle/feed/ 3 vacation: day 21 http://christinegacharna.com/blog/2008/07/13/vacation-day-21/ http://christinegacharna.com/blog/2008/07/13/vacation-day-21/#comments Sun, 13 Jul 2008 05:14:13 +0000 christine http://christinegacharna.com/blog/?p=1083 Dinner in Joseph, breakfast in Imnaha, dinner in Boise, midnight snack in Boise, breakfast in Denver, drinks in D.C., dinner in Virginia.

Or something like that. It was a long, long day getting home.

Note on Joseph, Oregon: it’s amazing. It reminds me a lot of Ouray, Colorado. The place is the definition of outdoor recreation. The man at the sporting goods store told us he tells people life is great, he locks the door each day at 6 p.m. and goes on vacation. Now how many people in D.C. say that???

Anyhow, after three weeks in cattle country, we felt like Chinese food, so we had dinner at P.F. Chang’s in Boise. Boise has come a long way since I was a kid, efforts to revitalize the downtown area are commendable. We had a great time walking around, browsing through shops, enjoying happy hour, eating dinner and then walking some more, past the fountain, down past the Capitol and on to Starbucks for coffee and dessert.

Our daughter’s fortune cookie read:

You are altruistic and will be involved in many humanitarian projects
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She asked us what “altruistic” means, and when I told her “selfless” and “doing good things for others” she replied, “Oh, that’s not mine; someone in Japan must’ve gotten mixed up.”

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]]> http://christinegacharna.com/blog/2008/07/13/vacation-day-21/feed/ 1 no cherries, no peaches, just pairs http://christinegacharna.com/blog/2008/07/09/no-cherries-no-peaches-just-pairs/ http://christinegacharna.com/blog/2008/07/09/no-cherries-no-peaches-just-pairs/#comments Wed, 09 Jul 2008 05:12:31 +0000 christine http://christinegacharna.com/blog/?p=1046 Pairs as in Shimano. Keen. Teva. Frye. Nike. Flojos.

I’m fascinated by these trees lining isolated stretches of highway, dripping in passerby’s artfully tossed footwear. I’m a shoe girl, what more can I say?

My sister and her family live on a cattle ranch at the brink of Hell’s Canyon. We’re on our way to visit. Out here, even the cattle guards are the real deal, not the painted-on kind.

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The dinner, drinks and company at the lodge wasn’t bad, either! :)

Guess which photo will make our Christmas card this year?
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