I like cola. I like cola a lot. I just don't like paying a lot for it, so I buy Shasta Cola. Shasta doesn't taste as good as Coke, but it's good enough to get the job done. Recently OSU switched from being a Coke institution to being a Pepsi institution. I grudgingly ordered some Pepsi to go along with my combo. When I took my first sip, I thought to myself, "This doesn't taste like Coke, but it is strangely familiar." A few sips later I thought, "Hey, this tastes like Shasta!" Are there any Pepsi drinkers out there? Do you think Shasta tastes like Pepsi? Or are my Coke-centric tastebuds desensitized to the finer points of Pepsi.
My birthday was this past Sunday (the 16th), so to celebrate the day, we went to Silver Falls State Park (state park website here). We hiked most of the "Trail of Ten Falls," so we got to see seven waterfalls. It was beautiful. I'm not sure if my pictures do it justice, but it is a gorgeous place to visit if you are ever in the Salem, OR, area.
Emily was riding in the car with me on our way to Bible study when she asked, "Daddy, are we going to Andrea's house tomorrow?" I said, "No Emily, we are going to Andrea's house tonight for Bible study and then we'll see Andrea over the weekend when we go camping. We'll also see ...[I list 10 of her friends]...." Emily paused for a minute and then said, "Wow! That's a big pile of people! We're going to see a big pile of people when we go camping!"
I'm not quite sure where she picked up the phrase "big pile of" anything, but aside from a moment of panic between "pile of" and "people", it was pretty cute.
Now I have little competition in the blog-o-sphere. Lisa decided to jump on board this blogging bandwagon and give you the Neumann news as it "really happened." (Another working theory is that Lisa was jealous of all of the quality time I've spent with my blog, so Lisa had to get her own.) So, saunter on over to Lisa's blog and check it out. Maybe you can even leave her a comment and tell her how much you like it. ;-)