Pretty in Pink

Woohoo! I don't know why but I feel like changing my blog colour to pink! Lisa my wonderful host mom in the Medford part of my trip has me decked out as quite the diva!


(On my way to dinner just feeling so purrrrrrrty)

So I am trying to get updated with all my pictures on Facebook and KodakGallery as well as my blog...since arriving in Ashland and wandering around the town where we had one day with: hail, rain, sun and snow in the distance...what can I say about this area?

I am staying out in White City with Sam and Lisa and they are just lovely...tomorrow (Sunday) the GSE group is going wine tasting and I think we are taking the convertible!

I went wandering around the garden today for the first time since being here as we have had early morning starts and late nights...ok ok back up!

Happy Birthday to me! I turned 29 years young in Ashland - and the Ashland Rotary Club sang happy birthday to me, my GSE teammates sang happy birthday to me over a wonderful breakfast, Kingsley the Medford Rogue (and boy are they rogue) Club President gave me some wonderful gifts on my arrival to meeting my team in the morning...and my team bought me the most awesome present ever - a pair of running shoes that I had to go and test on a treadmill etc. so no excuse for not being fit and running when I get back to Bim - I have proper running shoes now! My birthday was lovely surrounded by new friends and such warmth and love...and my old friends sent my hilarious cards and greetings on Facebook - am already planning for the big 3-0, did someone say all year round celebration?


(At the Ashland club meeting with Ken Ogden the GSE Committee Chair - such an excellent host!)

We visited the Ashland Club on 29th April for lunch meeting and banner exchange...that day I had vocational meetings with SOREDI and the City of Ashland
We learnt about the Peace Wall project, a real grass roots campaign where these women just made a peace banner and hung it on a fence then other people started doing it and soon it had built a collage and they luckily took photos of each banner because it was destroyed by vandals. But by then the photos were turned into images on tiles, and these tiles are now used to create a peace wall outside of the library!


The gang outside the peace wall



Dinner was fantabulous - thanks to all those who made it possible...Ken has really been spoiling us!!! We had wine from a local vineyard and friend of the club, the restaurant was owned by a Rotarian..everything was just so well arranged...

And then off to see Pride and Prejudice which was just a great way to end my birthday night!

I think our presentation the next day at the "Rogue" club deserves a separate post hahaha! So until next time...


(Even the City of Ashland gave me a present!)