A Baptism in Portland
We had the most wonderful trip to Portland, Oregon a few weeks ago. The main event was our granddaughter Gwen's baptism, but we made it into a very memorable family reunion and so much more. Day One (October 14th): I had only been home from my trip to Germany for 2 full days when we set off for the U.S. I was excited to see even more family, so I just tried to get as much sleep as I could along the way. We flew from Venice to London Heathrow - about 2.5 hours. This was my first time in Heathrow. We knew it was a huge airport ahead of time, so we did a little bit of research before we left home by studying a map and estimating which terminal(s) we would likely fly in and out of. Turns out that Heathrow is kinda weird . . . There are 5 large terminals, but within those terminals, there are "sub" terminals (A, B, C). We landed in Terminal 5A, but it was a long time before we figured out which terminal we needed to fly out of (Terminal 5B). Scott guessed that it was going...