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We're in Portland.  We came out here to see if we'd like it, and OH! Do we like it!  It's like they took a forest and built a city inside of it. SO! MANY! TREES!  John was concerned about missing the mountains in Salt Lake, but it's hard to miss the mountains when it feels like you're actually IN the mountains.

So, we like it here, so much.  We are really excited to become Oregonians.  We spent all day yesterday driving around, looking at different areas, trying to decide where we want to try to live.  I've fallen in love with the Murray Hill area in Beaverton, but all of Beaverton is nice.  We also really liked Happy Valley.  There was only one area when I turned to John and said, "turn around. Turn around right now, GO GO GO!"  And that was in Hillsboro. I don't think Hillsboro itself is a bad area, just that one neighborhood we were driving through was pretty sketchy.

Now we face the real challenge of trying to secure an apartment.  This wouldn't be such a hard task if we weren't unemployed with two kids, a cat and a large dog and a very large mortgage back in Utah.  It seems like we're really asking a lot.  I suppose what we do have going for us is good credit, clean background checks and nice trustworthy faces. 

In the next couple of days, our dreams of moving to Portland could shrivel and die before our eyes (much to the delight of some of our family and friends back home), or we could end up getting the perfect place and living happily ever after.  We just don't know what will happen.