Noah's Ark the restaurant

This is my heater at work. It stopped producing heat today.

We had a field trip to a plywood mill today.

On the way to the mil we passed the Noah's Ark restaurant. A few days ago I read about the restaurant and knew I needed to go there. The staff wear period outfits (??) Awesome.

The mill generates it's own power using tree bark.

And makes particle board out of the sawdust (etc) that they sweep up.

Dramatic.

I don't think Matt enjoyed the tour. Something about not being able to hear or not liking sawdust.

Every section of the mill/factory/whatever had a different smell. only some of which smelled like Christmas.

Our guide had an impressive jacket. Imagine an 8 ball jackets but, in various shades of florescent. Our safety jackets were much less impressive.

I don't really know what to say without actually explaining how plywood is made.

Or, giving you facts about the timber industry.

This was a drawing of Santa and a Pumpkin.

After the tour we went to Noah's Ark. It was closed.

We had Mexican food instead. Maxine wanted to have Margaritas for lunch.

This may be a picture of a mil, but I'm going to start a new story anyway. We drove to Eugene for the Micro Beer Festival.

I had to drive, but because of the tape player, the trip was referred to as like being in the 80's.

The beer festival was held in a very well lit auditorium or possibly a caf-itorium.

Many small beers from small companies were consumed.

Many of said beers tasted like flowers.

This is Jessica drinking a jalapeño flavored beer. I ended up drinking the second half of the beer.

This is a Bavarian beer maid (can I say that). She helped me pick out an appropriately flowery beer.

The crowd was pretty much exactly how I had envisioned the Pacific-Northwest prior to moving here. You can take that and interpret it however you see fit.

This is an action shot of a hippie dance.

I think I might have a crush on the women of the Pacific-Northwest .

We ran into Sam our other Americorps friend. He invited us out to a bar.

We quickly lost him an his friends.

These are "Rap Snacks" a hip hop/rapper/ghetto themed food product....possibly awesome, more likely questionable.

The six of us all stayed at the Econo Lodge. The room was a double.

At the 7-11 (previously pictured) the guy working there liked the button on my vest and then showed me his key chain that he only kind of liked. He informed as to how he would have improved it.

I forgot my pajamas, so I borrowed Evelyn's kulats. I had David take my picture, he took two to be on the safe side.

In the morning we went out for a macro-biotic breakfast. I had macro-bionic eggs.