On the 26th we left for our Luper family local winter vacation!  Steve planned an amazingly fun filled trip.  Here's our itinerary with notes...

Great Wolf Lodge - we spent a fun filled 24 hour period at GWL playing in the indoor water park, arcade and even included an amazing brownie/ice cream dessert that I'm still dreaming about.   Nate and Jessi even met some new friends from Portland.

Eugene - we stopped in Eugene on the way up to Willamette Pass, and met up with the Kermisch's to see their new baby, new house and have dinner.  It was great catching up with them again and Noah is so cute and such a great baby.

Willamette Pass - We stayed at a great place called Willamette Pass Inn and Chalet's and aside from the terrifying trip up the mountain to get there our stay was wonderful.   We got up and went skiing and yeah! Finally got Jessi on skis and she's a natural born skiier.  Her instructor kept pointing her out to his other students, saying "I taught her to ski this morning", it was really funny.

Portland – We did some touristy stuff and some having fun with the family stuff in Portland.  The touristy stuff was: Pittock Mansion, Oregon Jewish Museum, Bob’s Red Mill, “Do Jump”, Glowing Green’s golf and going to Made in Oregon store and Finnegans.  The fun family stuff was swimming at the hotel, playing Bustola (dice game like Farkle) and watching “Mama Mia”.

Tacoma - First Night Tacoma was a fun evening but definitely different than First Night Columbus or First Night Spokane.  We really had a nice evening but Jessi was pretty beat by 11:30p so we watched the NYE countdown in the hotel room together and then everyone went to sleep.  It was a nice way to start out 2009 together.