TheMom made it here in one piece, although she came down with a miserable cold on Saturday while visiting my older sister in Illinois. Yesterday we took her to the made in oregon store and other various shopping places. She bought me a camera bag as my birthday present. Then last night we took her to dinner and to Alton Baker Park to see the beginning part of the 1 billionth scale solar system that runs in the parks along the north bank of the Willamette.

She brought me my old old laptop that was given to my sister when I had to get a better one for school. We discovered that it was broken (power bit was broken on the inside) but TheBoy was able to take everything all apart and put it back together again. He says it works, although I fell asleep last night before he finished fixing it. On today’s agenda, maybe a haircut for me and then a trip to campus to show my mom around and then a trip to Salem to introduce her to TheBoy’s mom and Nanie. Tomorrow is a trip to the aquarium.