michael + nellie’s blog of awesome

today we took the beautiful drive from portland to hood river. what makes us such horrible photo-bloggers is that we get so caught up in what’s going on around us that we forget to take pictures. however, we did grab a few for some stories.

below is a picture of the bridal veil post office, much like a regular post office but 1/1000th the size. i guess a big point of interest for this particular site is that they hand cancel about 200,000 wedding invitations a year from lunatic brides that find it absolutely necessary to adorn their unusable stamp with “bridal veil.”



believe it or not there is no metal blue box outside. so, if you want something sent, you have to hand it off to a real live person! how archaic right? in any case, that person might happen to be lovely woman named geri and she might happen to have an adorable helper named buster. geri very specifically wanted us to mention that they stay in business when people, like you, buy stamps. so if you live in the portland / hood river area, do your part to encourage bridal disorders for years to come.

geri wasn’t a big fan of me stealing pictures of her, but buster didn’t seem to mind. geri said that if she could have any attribute or quality, it would be “organization.” buster seemed pretty ambivalent.



here’s us myspace-ing it up by the multnomah falls ( yah - haven’t quite mastered the art yet ).



dodge caravan vs the bridge of the gods.



in exploring a little town, we found a dock that extended about 150 ft onto hood river. two steps into our walk, we got hit with a wind that literally took us against the railing. getting out of the car, the temperature was 25 degrees. add the furious winds of the gods ( who’s bridge had just been schooled by a mini-van ) and it was pretty darn cold. in any case, i really wanted to make it to the end of this dock. i kept pushing forward till i heard “MICHAEL!!!! I CAN’T…( MUFFLED NOISES).” i turn back to see nellie -



we helped each other to the end and it was really spectacular. of course, we didn’t stay there long. here’s us running to safety.



one thing that we’ve found in a lot of northwest cities ( that you wouldn’t ever find in california ) is the joining of a movie theatre and restaurant. for me, that’s paramount to the combination of slapping a pint of ice-cream between two high-calorie cookies. of course andrews pizza + skylight theatres takes this a step further by offering selections from four breweries, local to hood river. a local brew, fresh pizza, and a movie? i should have brought my PJs.



for those of you wondering what we saw… we watched JUNO which was the perfect movie ( IMO ).

well, that’s all for now. it’s back to work tomorrow!