On Tuesday, we spent the all day at Silver Falls which is a State park about two hours from Portland. We hiked an 8 mile trail and we saw 7 water falls. It was incredible, there are no words to explain how beautiful it was! We were amazed in front of each fall and the forest is exeptional! We had lunch at the bottom of one of the falls called Twin Falls, and before leaving, Adi and I decided to swim in the river, it was very cold but so nice! I will have...

On Sunday, we left Seaside rather early to go to Canon Beach which is a very nice city on the coast. We went to the beach where we had a walk. There, the sea meets the forest and the mountains which is pretty amazing! When we arrived it was low tide, so we saw starfish and anemone. We had a lot of fun there!

This week end was a bit special: Nimi left us to work at BB camp, a Jewish summer camp on the Oregon coast, and Josh had to go to Israel. We were just three girls and we decided to spend two days on the beach, so we drove to Seaside! We stopped a lot on the way: First, we drove to BB camp where we saw some friends of the family, after this, we ate in a small restaurant, very good and special. Then, we made a stop at Tillamoke where we visited the cheese fa...

Yesterday it was the 4th of July, the American Independence day. For the occasion, Portland organized a music festival: The Blues festival. We went there with all the Einstein family and some friends. The weather was perfect and the music so great, so we decided to bring some food and have lunch and dinner there. There were a lot of vendors (shops) and so many people there. In the evening we saw the traditional fireworks of the 4th of July, it was amazing!!...

Three summers ago my family and I took part in an exchange program where they sent a boy from Lille, France to our home in Portland, Oregon. My brother hosted him for a month and naturally, my mother became attached to the 15 year old Kevin from France. One summer later our family decided to take a trip to visit Kevin's family in Lille. We heard of a program called a house exchange where we would find a family online who would like to use our house and in retur...