We took the rapid transit (MAX) from the airport to close to our hotel, The Hilton Executive, and I couldn't help but compare it to the rapid transit in Nanjing. The MAX was much less roomy and had inconvenient stairs inside each car
Views from our hotel room:
John, Maggie and Cat drove from Astoria to visit us and we went out for Japanese food. The visit was all too short.
The theme of the conference was Northanger Abbey. Although Northanger Abbey isn't my favorite JA book, the hero is my favorite JA hero.
The first session that I went to was called "Team Tilney Explains It All". It was a panel of four ladies explaining why Henry was their favorite Austen hero. There was also a man from England dressed like Henry Tilney who reinforced the panel's ideas with dialogue from Northanger Abbey. It was very entertaining. I didn't get a great picture of the actor, but here is a blurred version.
Bob's sister and brother-in-law picked us up and we stayed with them and went to church with them and they dropped us at the airport on Monday morning.
The trees were still very colourful, even in the rain. Here is a picture taken from Tom and Margaret's back yard.
Our flight back home wasn't so great. After we booked, the direct flight from Portland to Calgary was taken off, and we had to go through Vancouver, B.C. Our flight was late leaving Portland and we missed our connection to Calgary, but luckily we got on the next flight and made our connection to Lethbridge. It took an extra five hours without the direct flight between Portland and Calgary.
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