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We went to Wildlife Safari, an awesome drive-through zoo/safari experience in Oregon near AJ's house.

Bears!!! They were so close to us, and so incredibly cute. I wanted to take one home with me, but AJ said we weren't ready yet. Boo.

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The Riggs clan, assembled for the memorial service of Bonnie Riggs.

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A stormy evening sky over Roseburg.

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Wearing AJ's mom's geisha wig.

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A lovely Oregon panorama! (Click on it-- it's worth it! My blog doesn't like this format but I'm too lazy to change it right now.)

(This is technically cheating. I actually took this on Jan. 1, but not a single photo from 12/31 turned out. It was a boring day-- rain, cold, mediocre college football...)

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There are a lot more photos of the awesome hike AJ and I took on facebook. But I liked this one especially because of the rain-- it started to rain when we got to the top of the hill his house is on, and we stayed pretty dry by staying under the trees. The rain looked like a shiny white sheet. Or an invisibility cloak. So beautiful!
And then you get some bonus pictures:

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Roseburg from AJ's porch.

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AJ teaching me about the woodstove.

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The Oregon coast

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A very Motel 6 Christmas! It was actually great. :-)

Photos of home Christmas from Claire to perhaps follow...'

(VERY LATE UPDATE: a photo of the chandelier I got Mom for Christmas!)