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”.
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