Mothers Day: 2011

Mothers Day 2011: On Mothers Day we went to the downtown Vancover Methodist Church as it is close to the rehab center where I stay. We  planned to go to Ridgefield Methodist the next Sunday even though it is a few miles further away. We enjoyed calls from Kari and Brett during the day and a special treat of green curry dinner prepared by Brett at our home as I checked out of rehab for the afternoon to spend time in Ridgefield. Brett made a huge  batch so we had a couple of lunches and Nancy froze some and we will get to enjoy one of our Thailand treats again another day.  We love Thai food and have a favorite restaurant  in Vancouver we frequent when we get a chance.

We had a slight change of plans on Sunday because my PICC line was plugged up and I had to go in to the clinic to see if they could get it unplugged (kind of like a plumbing backup ), other wise I'd have to have a new line put in. We thought we'd have an easy drive in on Sunday morning, but the I-5 bridge was closed overnight and still closed when we came through at 8:00am. The electronic signs had promised that it would be closed all night and reopen at 7:30 am, but they lied! That meant that we had to take a long detour over to the only other bridge across the Columbia and back again. Portland is known as a city of many bridges, but most of them cross the Willamette instead of the Columbia, which is our only way to cross from Washington to Oregon. They have been working on a plan for another bridge across the Columbia but it has taken years in just the planning stages and may take a few more, due to funding problems and agreement between the two states about design, cost-sharing, etc.