Portland

What a fabulous finish to spring break, a weekend in Portland with Katie! Jenn & I were starving when we arrived and Katie had a deli picked out for lunch, the "Flying Elephant". As we stood perusing the menu, Katie said listen. The stereo system was playing Pnik Martini's "Hang on Little Tomato" cd, of course. Ahhhhhh, Portland, is such a nice place.

On Friday we visited, Portland State University. Fabulous campus, nice people and closer to Tacoma (my evil plan, shhhhhh). After be bopping a bit around downtown, it was time to eat. We headed to "Le Happy". It's a great restaurant, filled with yummy crepes. It's very funky and styled after a Paris cafe and owned by Pink Martini's manager, John Brodie. As we finished dessert, John came in. It was fun to see him and chat with him. Make sure when you go to Portland & eat at Le Happy's (thanks for the tip Stuart) don't forget to tell John that I sent you.

Here is Katie standing in front of a wall of flowers at Le Happy's. Don't be surprised when you go in the Ladies Room that the wall is covered with photos of men. This freaked Jenn out a bit, making her very nervous that she was sitting in the men's room by mistake.



See Katie knit. As you can see her beautiful scarf is all finished and she is knitting project #2. Soon to be a felted bag. For this she needed to learn how to purl. Without me. The little bugger has bonded with the women at the knitting store in Ashland and got her going. You go girl!



See Jenn knit. Many people, me included, never thought that we would see this image. But Katie and I are pretty forceful. We cornered poor Jenn in a yarn shop and made her pick out this yarn for a scarf. Funny thing is, she really liked it and is a yarn junkie. We did the Portland yarn crawl and Jenn led the charge. I think we may have her join the darkside.



Katie is such a fast mover, she picked up this young lad. Actually, this is Dan, a good buddy from TSOTA (Tacoma School of the Arts) who now goes to school and lives in Portland. He was a real trooper and put up with all of us on Saturday & Sunday. He's a big fan of one of favorite spots in Portland, Powell's bookstore. If you like books & have no other reason to go to Portland, go for Powell's City of Books, 68,000 square feet packed with books.