10 August 2008

The Fourth and Eighth and everything between

Today I thought I would update my blog for the last month. Yes I have done a few things since fishing. The greatest thing is that I started working. Unfortunately I am not working for the guy I thought I was. Instead I am working for a doctor who is studying SLOS disease. If you want gorey details of all I am doing let me know. The main thing is that I am doing exactly what I want to do with this internship. I've been running PCRs and doing mutational analysis on the sequences of the a certain gene. It's great.

Since my fishing trip, I have had the chance to go on a few adventures around this place. On the 4th of July, Emily and I spent the day with her Jessica and Jason down at Fort Vancouver where we were privileged to watch the fireworks from inside the fort because my dad volunteers there as a blacksmith. The fort is a good acre or more inside and there were only about 6 families allowed inside. It was great here are few pictures.



I especially like the one of my dad and Emerson. I think my dad is very ready to be a grandfather. The funny outfit he is wearing is his blacksmithing outfit. He worked at the forge that day.

My parents and Emily and I also went on a little adventure to see some of the nature in the Columbia Gorge. We climbed to the top of Beacon Rock and then went and saw Multinomah Falls. Here are a couple of pictures.



For my birthday this past Friday, We went to the zoo. It was really fun. There were a lot of animals roaming around in their cages rather than just sleeping in corners. Here are the pictures from my birthday. I also want to thank all who sent me gifts and money. I really liked all the games. Thank you all very much. Here's the pictures.


These are the two animals Emily and I like to look at the most. I like the polar bear because he's always playing. He was trying to break open the plastic box he's standing on. He would flip it and jump on it and naw on it over and over again. Emily likes the giraffe.