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Happy Veteran's Day and Happy Lady Legs Day:

11-11-13 



I want to give a shout out to my brother, Kevan. He passed his real estate exam and got a job with Remax. Good job bro-man. 

Kevan playing with 2 Bingo cards.

Kevan invited the family out to El Sol to announce his good news, but right before going to the restaurant the whole family went to the Elk's Lodge to play Bingo. We only played 3 games, but guess who won. Okay, it was me. I won 2 tickets to Regal Cinemas. Definitely using the tickets for Hunger Games: Catching Fire. 

Bingo has a special place in the heart of the Willes family. We play Bingo mixed with White Elephant every year for Thanksgiving. In Bingo, B11 is often refereed to as lady legs because the double ones look like legs. Also, today is November 11th, making today Lady Legs Day. This year for Thanksgiving, Patrick and I are going to Bend with my family and the Killens. Patrick's parents and sister, Shadra, are going out to Ethiopian food for Thanksgiving, which I think is quite funny. However, if you are with family or friends and you are eating good food, then you are doing Thanksgiving right.

Now that we live in Corvallis, we don't see Patrick's family as much, but we did spend this weekend up there with them. It was like a dream vacation, full of so many fun activities. 

We went up to Portland on Friday because Patrick was touring Bob's Red Mill with his senior design group. Bob's Red Mill is sponsoring their project (a human powered wheat grinder.) He got to see the whole process and all the machinery. If Patrick could get a job working there, he would love his career. I'm all for it too. He's already working on winning over the man in charge. Bob and Patrick apparently became buddies at a luncheon a few weeks back and Bob felt comfortable enough to call Patrick "Pat." But then again, when you're 85 you can call anyone anything you like.

I picked Pat up from the mill store and then we crossed the street and went inside Dave's Killer Bread quarters. That's right, Bob's Red Mill and Dave's Killer Bread are right across the street from each other. Infact, Dave's Killer Bread moved into Bob's Red Mill's old building. And yes, Dave's Killer Bread does buy their wheat/flour from Bob's Red Mill. These long three-letter bread companiy names are killing me, I really should have started abbreviating them like 5 sentences ago.

Patrick in front of BRM holding a BRM bread loaf.

Jessie in front of DKB quarters. 

That night we celebrated Tucker's birthday. We went to Out of This World Pizza. This place is pretty much Chucky Cheese, but galactic themed. Patrick and I are looking forward to having kids so that we have an excuse to do the activities that kids get to do. like the play structe, slides, and inflatables. Is that a good enough reason to have kids? Sure, why not. We'll feed them and love them too, don't worry.

Saturday we went to OMSI with Sally and Jerome (Patrick's parents.) Tucker and his kidlets came later. Sherlock Holmes is the featured exhibit right now. Our job was to solve the mystery. We might have been a little over zealous out of the gates because we read pretty much the entire history and inspiration of Sherlock Holmes, searching for secret clues in efforts to solve the mystery (none of which were relevant to the actual mystery). Once we got to the clearly defined mystery solving section, it was fun and challenging.

We built this structure at OMSI and exactly 1.3 seconds after finishing, a small boy attacked it and it was demolished. So we built it again and got this picture. After the second build, it took more like 39 seconds before a small boy destroyed it. Patrick was mad at small boys for a while.

OMSI was followed by Five Guys and then Ender's Game at Cinetopia. I really liked the movie. It is up there with Now You See Me (probably my favorite movie of the year.) I was distracted by the fact that Ender looks a lot like my cousin, Andrew. My mom thought the same thing. Thanks for validating me, Mom.