Ernie's First Hotel

Today was a very big day for Ernie Baby. Up until today he has only slept in three places: Lyly belly, the hospital, and our apartment. We planned his first road trip for him down to Portland. We wanted him to see the sights and we wanted to practice using our travel gear in a low risk setting. That way we could get all the bugs out for some big trips. 

Every good journey begins with a tubby.

Mountain's out!

We had to stop I believe in a Wendy's parking lot for a little milk break.

We wanted to keep it classy for Ernie's first hotel stay so we went with the Benson Portland, Curio Collection by Hilton in Portland's downtown.

I was eligible for this student loan forgiveness but our clowny illegitimate supreme court ruined it. Very sad.

So far so good.

Piggy Christmas

Our big social event for the day was Gabby and Derek inviting us over to their place for a Christmas party.

We pre-partied a bit beforehand with some mulled wine at the apartment.

I'm not sure that I've addressed this kind of boring but ongoing bit of my life. While I was working on my master's degree at Regis University the federal government paused student loan payments on account of the covid emergency. I decided I wouldn't mind an interest free loan so I loaded up on as much as they would give me. There's been some political pressure on President Biden to forgive student loans as well, so I'm looking at taking on this debt as sort of a lottery ticket.

I brought the beautiful Spanish Serrano ham that I bought at Costco as revenge against Lydia trying to ruin my fun in Spain.

The thing was supposed to come with a wooden rack to cut it on but we couldn't get it assembled correctly. Oh well.

It was delicious but it turns out that normal groups of party participants don't eat entire cured pig legs in one sitting.

Wrapping this thing back up was a bit of work.

We tried Derek's Valve Index VR headset thing and had a lot of fun with it.