Chris Isaak sings to me for my birthday

Ok so he didn't sing directly to ME but Jon did take me to see Chris Isaak as an early birthday gift. He was amazing as always. The hotel at Spirit Mountain Casino didn't have any rooms available so we ended up getting a room at a small inn near there in a tiny town called Sheridan. The inn was adorable and felt like going to stay at grandmas house or something.

We got all dolled up for Chris Isaak and headed over to the Casino

We weren't exactly sure how to get there so we used Google Maps which took us to some weird back roads, a couple dead ends then tried to take us on a pitch black dirt road going up a hill. We didn't want to get murdered in the middle of the woods so we turned around and somehow found our way to the casino.


Neither of us are gamblers so we only spent $10 each on the slots. We had a bite to eat then headed to the show. It was so great. He came out into the crowd like he usually does where one lucky lady got to kiss him and he sat on someones lap.

He is so funny and always interacts with the audience. You can check out this video to see a snippet of his silliness

Although he rocked the house most of the night he also brought it down a notch to sing my favorite song, Wicked Game. You can see a video of that here

Once we saw the piano roll out me and Jon looked at each other and thought, oh yeah, he's going to do Great Balls of Fire and have the smoke come out! He didn't do it right away but he did eventually do it. LOVE IT!

The show was great and we both had an amazing weekend even though I was starting to get sick that night and had full blown Flu delirium on Sunday.

Oh and did you hear? It's supposed to be pretty warm on my birthday.

Christmas with the Tomblesons

Last December we had a lot of jolly Christmas adventures. This weekend we went back to relive some of them and ended up discovering even more in the process.  Luckily this year it is a little bit warmer for us so we can enjoy them even more.

On Friday thanks to twitter we discovered the Fremont Street festival of lights for the first time. It was really fun. We got to hear the a Capella group the Portland Timbre sing. They are really amazing singers and really funny.

We also saw some amazing art work done on playing cards by a local artist named Aaron Trotter. He draws places in different cities and puts them on playing cards.

On Saturday we took Adelina's family to see the Alpenrose Dairy Christmas village. (okay Jorge drove but we showed them the village) This is a really amazing Christmas adventure. They have an old town set up with Story book lane with lots of animals to see and some to pet. There is also an old style opera house that has dancing and movies. This is a must see Christmas adventure and it is free!!! Oh and there is an amazing model train display.

Some people might have called it a weekend at that and stayed in bed all day Sunday after so many adventures already but not the Tomblesons. We keep on adventuring until the work bell rings on Monday morning. Sunday we went to see the Pittock Mansion exhibit on Christmas Carols. This is a beautiful old mansion up on Burnside by Forest park that gets even more amazing at Christmas time. Each room was made up to be a Christmas Carol. The first room took our breath away.

After going through the Mansion we had Siri help us get to a Norwegian Christmas music event over at the Lutheran Church on NE 21st. We go there a bit late but we made it in time to hear some beautiful singing in Norwegian and hear some cool instruments. Afterward there was a reception with the most wonderful and tasty punch and cookies. Adelina's grandma used to make some cookies like these. There wasn't any signs saying only one trip so we went back and back to the cookies.

Scotland Video

I made a little video montage of some video we shot during our trip

Christmas is Here!

December is here which for the Tomblesons means going out to all the holiday festivities around town. This weekend we started out going to the Scan Fair on Saturday and took my picture with the viking I had my picture taken with last year.

 

 I had to get some Krumkake which my Grandma used to make. Isn't really christmas without some.

 After going to the gym we were pretty hungry so we had some danish sausages with potatoes and gravy and a norwegian pancake. Sooo yummy.

 We saw a lot of neat crafts and candies and also saw a really neat group play some fun music.

 After the Scan Fair we ran a couple more errands then had a delicious dinner at the Outback Steakhouse. It's one of our new favorite places. We can't get enough of that really good bread.

 On sunday we went to have dinner at my moms then took her and Gio to go see the Festival of lights at the Grotto. There were so many beautiful lights and I got to spend time with some goats which is one of my favorite things.