Tuesday, August 23, 2011

So much to say about today... But first a shout out to our boyyyy Cory Foust.

The morning started started with a wonderful breakfast accompanied by delicious coffee. We then made our way to public transit once more. Our favorite, but today was different.. We zipped over to downtown and once more had a helpful stranger (outside Timber soccer field) point us in the right direction for the Rose Sanctuary. We had a friendly bus driver that was filled to the brim with funnies and knew all the locals by name. He dropped us off and we were on our way to the RS.

We arrived around 10:45 and there was a free rose garden tour at 11:30 but we were too anxious to hang around and wait to get into groups so we took it upon ourselves to tour the garden. The place was MAGICAL. It had roses of every size, shape, and color. We felt like we were in Alice in Wonderland. From the rose garden we went to the Japanese Flower Garden. Well, we went as far as we could until we got to an admissions booth and we didn't want to pay, so we decided to take the "Wild Wood" trail.

The Wild Wood trail was long, green, and peaceful. We definitely got a good hike in, about 2 and a half hours worth. We saw a snail, then slugs, and then ate wild berries :) Then we arrived at a Mansion where we used the restroom and took a picture, then continued on our trek that we thought would loop us around to where we began....but no. We were just hiking further and further into...well away from where we began. But no need for us to freak out, its not like we had a car to return to. Soooo we continued hiking and eventually ended up in a neighborhood. We had hiked all the way through one park...and all the way through another! We found our way to a bus stop and hung out for 15 minutes. We were laying down, singing, just living when the bus pulled up. We excitedly stood up, found our tickets and hopped on to be greeted by grumpy pants McGee who said, "You all sure were doing a good job at goofing off. Where are you all going, Im about to be on my break. You can either catch another bus or wait on the bus for 27 minutes". We chose to catch another bus that took us into uptown Portland where we ate a lovely lunch at "Sal's kitchen". Sal sureee knows how to make a nice Moscato.. Anywho the food was delicious and we got a few pointers from our waitress who suggested we head to the river....

So our trek began to this river. What do you know?? We walkeeed and walked and walked some more. Finally asked a guy where we should really be going and headed there. As we walked we tried our hardest to run from and irate homeless lady that was denied a bus ride...hmmmmm wonder why... and found food served out of food carts (that smelt amazing by the way...more on that tomorrow). We made it to the Williamette River and as you will see in our pictures it was just wonderful...now on the other hand the park that we were walking through had some questionable hippie/homeless/deranged folks scattered about. But all in all it was a nice sight to see (the smells not so much). We continued on to downtown where we experienced some hilarious encounters. For example: walking by a guy smoking a joint and then another passerby asking "Is that you getting high?? Sure smells like they got good weed around here..." We quickly made our way back to the familiar side of downtown to be greeted by the sound of bongo drums playing. Bec suggested we go to there to hear the awesome concert. Turns out it was one single boy trying to make it in the big city.   

As we walked to the familiar side we passed by Nines Hotel where the Chivas soccer team would be resting their heads until the game tomorrow... Needless to say we were in heaven for a few minutes as we watched the boys unload their bus. As we made our way through the sea of hotties we drooled and wished we did not appear to have walked 5000 miles today. Welp, you win some you lose some. Sorry to our moms... We wont be coming home with a soccer boy husband....

Our little feet were soooo sleepy so we decided to head out to our neck of the woods. We hopped on the MAX but got the great idea to stop at China Town. We never de see one Chinese descendant.. We were fooled, more like strip club and peep show town. Oh well! Back on the MAX we go.

We arrived back in our hood just in time to have a locally brewed brewski and read the local newspaper. Sooooo different than TX newspapers, but got some good laughs. Swung by Fred Meyers and picked up a six pack of Full Sail Ltd and headed to the casa.

On the itinerary for tomorrow: voodoo donuts, farmers market, hiking, food carts, and meeting up with Bec's cousin!

Check out today's pictures!!!!   http://www.shutterfly.com/lightbox/view.sfly?fid=194215c578408148c9f3edf1ebadc1fb

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