Brian and Jackie: Weekend with Michael

Michael came to town for Halloween weekend. It was a lot of fun for us to have him out here, especially since he was on his mission for the wedding and couldn't make it out for Bobby's baby blessing due to his ACL surgery. The sun was shining on his first day here so there was no real need to stand under the man's umbrella but what the heck.

I let Michael use my camera since he left his at our apartment. In the above picture Michael is trying to master the timer. He forgot to zoom out first though.

That's better

Michael walked straight up to some girls to ask for help with this shot.

The main reason of his trip was to come to the Sufjan Stevens concert with us. I was so happy when I found out that Sufjan would be touring out here I bought tickets right away. I told Michael about it and even though Sufjan would be in Salt Lake 3 days later, he decided it would be a good time to come out and visit us.

We had some time to kill before the concert so we went and got a bite to eat.

The Benson Bubblers. The drinking fountains downtown.

View from the balcony of all the hipsters walking in

On Saturday they sat in the rain to watch me play a couple of softball games. We won and lost. It also wouldn't be a Portland trip without going to Charlie's movie theater. Charlie was actually out of town but called ahead to let the other manager know we would be coming. We saw Matt Damon's movie, Hereafter, an interesting movie, but I'll stick with this version of the Plan of Salvation. After that it was back to the house to watch the end of one of the World Series games, and then to the church parking lot for the Trunk or Treat.

Michael came to my Sunday School class to meet the kids. It was a pretty typical, rowdy lesson with even a blow horn going off when I was writing something on the chalkboard. Is there any way that Bobby can skip being 13, 14, and 15 years old?