Message-ID: <31332182.1075863313337.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 18:30:52 -0700 (PDT) From: -nikole@excite.com To: bill.williams@enron.com Subject: Damn the weather!!!! Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: nikki cole <-nikole@excite.com>@ENRON <IMCEANOTES-nikki+20cole+20+3C-nikole+40excite+2Ecom+3E+40ENRON@ENRON.com> X-To: Williams III, Bill </O=ENRON/OU=NA/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=BWILLIA5> X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \Williams III, Bill (Non-Privileged)\Bill Williams III X-Origin: Williams-B X-FileName: Williams III, Bill (Non-Privileged).pst Hey there!! Oh I was sooo upset! It didn't rain, thunder, sprinkle shoot it wasn't even humid or misty! I got screwed! :) Ok it wasn't all that bad. I actually had a really great time. Imagine someone actually going on vacation to see it pour rain. Sick sick individual! Let's see the first day all we did was tour the city and allow lil' miss Nikki to be a spy! Portland was great no wonder you live in the middle of down town. There were so many things to do and see! Unfortunately because we didn't exactly have a good idea of where to go and so on and so forth we just wondered around aimlessly. Then on Saturday we all drove to Astoria...you knew I just had to go!! It was great! Absolutely beautiful! On the way we stopped at the fresh berry market and had the most amazing berries!!! Oh they were good! Next we ate at a little fish place mmmm...clam chowder and fried seafood. Then went to Cannon Beach. What a great little town! I bought some pulled taffy and some hot chocolate and was in heaven! Alot of the beach sites , (for example Haystack rock) were in the Goonies film. Then of course I found the little hotel that "Kindergarten Cop" was filmed in. what a loser I was taking pictures like a fool! Bill you don't understand, for years and years every Saturday after cartoons I would pop "KC" into the VCR. I loved it! Ok ok dorky but hey you have to have some abnormalities in your life. Then if you haven't been here I am going to be the one to take you for your first time....if you'll let me. And hey don't get any wild hairs about exploring this before hand mister!!!I'm the tour guide on this baby!!! :) It's outside of Cannon Beach just past Hug point. It's a little trek called Falcon Cove. you can reach the beach and it is the most beautiful hike we went on. Finally we drove back into town and ate at the most discusting little dive downtown! Bush Gardens???? Blech! Horrible I felt like I had licked the hair on my dogs butt! Oooo it was just gross. Then of course I got to meet you. That was a nice highlight to my trip. You rate right up there along side the "KC" hotel rooms. yeah I kinda like ya! :) Next morning I ate the best breakfast of my entire life. Not kidding! It's something like the Otwalia??? It's in the Westin hotel. Ok we all shared our plates so this was our breakfasts...Sarah got a fruit plate, I got eggs benedict and Todd got pecan encrusted french toast with orange zing butter and syrup. Swear to God that is the first place I want to go to eat when I get to go back. Ok it was a little pricey though. Not tooo bad. it was 31.25 for 3 of us. Not alot but breakfast is usually like 5 bucks! The next two days were spent in Hood River/ Cascade Lockes. We hiked the Mananomah (whatever) falls the next day we rented bikes and rode them around the town of Stevens,WA. 15 miles! I was really hurting by that night! 3/4 of the trail was up hill! Oh my tail end hurt like crazy! In Steven's we ate at a little snack shop. It was probably one of the better places! Oh what was it's name??? Oh Little Viking's. Really cute place. You've gotta go! Oh one more that I won't recommend...Tugboat Annie's in Hood River. Again I felt like I had given an ATB to someone! Too fancy. I'm a meat and potatoe girl. That fancy stuff is nice sometimes but usually they just over do it. WE ate at Stanford's the last day and it was another fancy place. I ordered onion rings and they were good. The salad was horrible! So on a food rating scale POrtland/Oregon recieves a 70%. I guess I'm just not going to the right places. As you can tell by the length of this I am at work and needing to use some of my time up! You are the poor sap I've chosen since you don't know me yet. Well the move out date is set for me. I move out on July 31. I'm not too sure when the townhouse will be available though so I'm playing it by ear. DO you have any idea when your trip out there might fall? If you have a ball park idea that might be nice until you get concrete dates. I just want to be sure that I'm off of work as much as possible the day or days that you have elected to spend with me. That is if you still want to spend them with me. I mean I did sort of stalk your house and found out where you lived....that can't be good! :) Ok I honestly and sincerely feel bad about that whole situation. I'm just sort of a small town girl who knows that those things really aren't appropriate but do them regardless. You'll understand once we become better friends! I warned you a little though. I did say that I was spontaneous and might just show up on your doorstep. Well there you go I did! Please don't tell Brendan. You probably already did! I actually need to E-mail him and tell him what a sweetheart he is for introducing me to you. The small amount of time I got to spend with you was very nice. I look forward to doing that again sometime. We'll just up hte time slot a hair. Ok I will let your weary eyes seetle back to work. Oh I did receive your voicemail on my phone but it was in NM. I wouldn't have had time anyhow but thank you for your hospitality and the offer. I can't wait to reciprocate it in CAli.! Take care, Nikki _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/