...Continued from yesterday: And behold, on the fourth day, my last day in Portland, there was sun, Granted, it was not warm, bright L.A.-style sunshine we woke up to on Sunday morning, but that mild, cool Portland sunshine. However that was enough to encourage us to get out bright and (sort of) early and walk about a mile through the surrounding neighborhood, ...but we eventually got a nice table outside. Breakfast was outstanding. seeing how my tongue was hanging out for that biscuit,. Meanwhile I had the Croque Madame, an egg on top of grilled ham and cheese , hot crispy french fries and a most delicious dill pickle, which really set off the rest of the meal, and which I likewise shared with Romaine. After breakfast we walked back home, By then the sky was looking overcast again, The plan was to walk round the hillside for a bit then let Lucy run free in the dog park. Now, I guess I had imagined that the dog park would be a fenced-off square of play ground-type area, where the dogs played in the center while the parents sat on benches along the edge and chatted while their poochies played. Not at all so. The Mt. Tabor dog park was a sequestered forest area, As for me with my phobia of big aggressive dogs, this was a little like wandering through one of my recurring nightmares, the Big Dogs After Me one. Of course the dogs weren't after me, as I tried telling my phobia, they just wanted to run around and play, but I'm sorry to say my phobia won out and Lucy's fun was cut a bit short on my account. Sorry, Lucy. 8/ It was an overall nice hike, though, and by dinner time we felt we'd earned the right to take on nourishment, seeing as we'd finally spent the greater part of a day doing something more healthy than watching 'Breaking Bad" For dinner we tried a Chinese restaurant where the food, though nicely presented, tasted kind of bland. Our fortunes were pretty good, though.
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...Continued from yesterday: Which means lots of rain. And, the upside, a proliferation of plant life. And there are flowers everywhere. ...but without the snakes.
...Continued from yesterday: …after which we planned to catch an outdoor art show downtown. The food was really good. As it turned out the Portland rain gods were with us, as by the time we were done eating the rain had stopped and the sun was breaking through. So we drove downtown to the art show, …where we saw lots of art. We were all particularly enchanted by an item we saw among a display of arty rain gear, And it was so Portland: - I mean, what could be more Portland than a funky raincoat?
But I could even see rocking it around Columbus. Except that upon closer inspection it looked to be kind of small, more Atsu's size than mine or Romaine's, and we all agreed that it would look really cute on her. Then we looked at the price tag. $349. Oh well, we guessed it was supposed to be art, after all. We wondered who would buy that $349 raincoat? In fact who would buy up all those racks of $349 raincoats? It started to rain again so we went home to ponder the question, Friday morning the sun was out, sort of. We planned to go downtown in the afternoon and try to snag some cheap, last-minute tickets to "The Lion King" then hang out down town, walk around, eat, then walk around some more until the evening performance. But in the meantime we figured we'd go grab some brunch then take Romaine's doggy Lucy for a hike in Mt. Tabor Park, one of Portland's many beautiful hills and green spaces. After bunch we returned to Romaine’s house and decided to catch just one more episode or maybe two of “Breaking Bad” before we ventured out for our hike with Lucy. But one or two turned to three or four, and we figured we could maybe skip the hike around Mt. Tabor, ...and we’d have plenty of time to take her for a walk later then leave for downtown around 4:15 pm. But then the rain started up again, our easy chair and couch felt more and more comfy, and “Breaking Bad” got more and more addicting, …and before we knew it 4:15 pm had come and gone, and we decided it was too rainy to go downtown, anyway, and really, getting last-minute “Lion King” tickets on a Friday night would be hit-or-miss, so we decided to just watch a little more a “Breaking Bad” and catch the 7:30 showing of “Florence Foster Jenkins” at a nearby movie theater. We invited one of Romaine’s friends to the movies with us. This meant we’d have to turn off the TV, haul ourselves up and go. And Lucy still needed her walk, of course. By 6 pm the rain had stopped so we took Lucy for her walk around the neighborhood. We really enjoyed “Florence Foster Jenkins”, which starred Meryl Streep, wonderful, as usual, as the wealthy, deluded New York patroness of the arts in the 1940’s who believed herself to be a talented opera singer though she couldn’t carry a tune, and Hugh Grant as her husband who bribed people to come to her concerts and opera critics to write wonderful reviews of her terrible performances. We liked the movie so much, and had such a nice evening with Romaine’s friend, that we were glad we’d pulled ourselves away from “Breaking Bad”.
...and hello to my dear ones in Portland, Oregon:
When my plane arrived in the middle of the afternoon the skies were - not unexpectedly, never unexpectedly in Portland - overcast. By the time we arrived home from the airport it was drizzling. Soon it was raining, which squashed our original ambition to catch an outdoor concert that evening. "How about we watch a little 'Breaking Bad' instead?" suggested my sister. The rain was falling outside. It was nice and cozy inside. Curling up on the couch with some "Breaking Bad" sounded good. As we'd both seen the first season we started with season 2. But after a couple of episodes of the tragi-comic trials and tribulations of the hapless high school chemistry teacher turned meth cook, we were hooked.. We broke for dinner though - by then the rain had stopped - and met up at a great little local Mexican restaurant called Sandovals,
The food was soooo good: Holly had beef-filled flautas, or fried tacos, Romaine had a fresh and lovely-looking steak salad,
...then we headed back to Romaine's house where we settled in with cups of warm tea, Romaine in the easy chair, me stretched out on the couch, and got back to "Breaking Bad." |
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