We started the day with an early reveille at 10:30am. We needed the sleep. We got in last night between 1:30am and 2am, which was 5am in Bloomington and to our bodies. We are staying with my parents friend Anne and her husband Brad in Beaverton, Oregon, just outside Portland.
Anne (who introduced my parents to eachother) had set a nice spread for us. We had a delightful breakfast of bagels and nanners (and Adam had cheesecake). We left at noon to take Anne to work in downtown Portland. On the drive we were able to see Mount Hood and Mount St. Helens.
We walked Anne to her office and met some of her co-workers before heading into the city on our own. We had been told about these carts in Portland that sell amazing ethnic food. They had food from all over the world. There was Greek, Vietnamese, Japanese, Italian, Peruvian, and Thai. It took a long time for us to choose just one. Greg, Rob, Adam and I got Thai food and Ponto got Vietnamese. We ate our treats in one of the many park areas around downtown Portland. We met a Can Lady who gave us terrible directions but was oh so polite.
After refueling, we marched over to Powell's bookstore. Along the way Greg spotted a record store so we lost him for a bit. Powell's is the largest independent bookstore in the nation. It was amazing! There were so many floors and so many books. They have to have a separate store for technical books because there just isn't any room. They have every kind of book you could want and most of them are used so they are super cheap. Rob and I were able to make a couple of sweet purchases.
Adam disappeared, but don't worry we found him. We made our way to the Willamette River, but not before going to the Union Pacific Railroad Station to check out the area. We saw Chinatown too. We soon realized that our legs were horribly tired. We had been walking all day after sitting for 36 hours. Our bodies don't know what to do. We found a pub to sit at and took a much needed break. This gave us some time to reflect on the fact that we were sitting in the Irish section of Portland. I still can't believe we're here.
Austin Bristow and Caitlin Roth came into the city and we were able to meet up with them for dinner. We were in Niketown and they were at the Nike headquarters. We got dinner at the closest place we could find because we all were losing it. It was nice to see them even though it was only for a brief dinner. We said goodbye and decided to say goodbye to Portland too. We are beat.
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