raindrops keep fallin' on my head...

For those of you who were able to follow along on Cy & Margo's blog (she uploaded from her iphone periodically) for our awesome road trip across half the US will know that we've made it safely to our new home-land, the great city of Portland. Being that it's winter, we were greeted by rain, of course. Fortunately (for travel-sake), yet unfortunately (for pleasure-sake) we missed the snow storm of the century!  My folks had sent us photos of my childhood home drenched in 18-inches of snow just the week before we arrived. Since we've been here (official arrival was Sunday, December 28th) we have had some occasional snow flurries and we even awoke the other day to about a half-inch of snow that had fell while we were sleeping. It, of course, melted quickly away (even though the daytime temperatures were near the mid 40s here, they still *feel* freezing to us). :P  We're constantly bundling up before going outside. I had to buy a replacement snow hat, since my other went missing on the second half of our road trip.  And I've even been tempted to stack my thermals under my jeans... Hmm, maybe tomorrow. :)  Ooo, and I also want to get a good pair of galoshes.  I keep getting interesting looks from people here... like I shouldn't be so bundled up, like I missed the boat or something... I guess the weather is much warmer here this week than the previous ones with all the ice/snow they had. Oh well, I think acclimation is going to just take some time, so I had better just get used to the funny-looks. :D :P