It was the last days of summer and I got to enjoy every moment. My old roommate, Tanya, from Orlando came to visit me for the week and we took advantage of every speck of sunshine and all that Portland has to offer. Here's all that we did.
Events/Sightseeing:
Oregon Symphony Free Concert - The symphony kicks off the season with a free outdoor concert at the waterfront.
International Rose Test Garden at Washington Park- beautiful view of the city and thousands of wonderful smelling roses
Pittock Mansion- it was closed but we took the poor man's tour by peaking in the windows.
Saturday Farmer's Market - We bought french bread and tomatos for a great meal at home.
Oregon Ballet Outdoor Performance - every summer the ballet rehearses outdoors and then does a short performance.
Art in the Pearl- annual outdoor art festival
Shopping at Woodburn Outlet Mall- I desperately needed some business casual.
Scenic Drive to Mt Hood and Timberline Lodge - love this 3 hour drive to Mt Hood
Hood River- Windsurfing capital of the US and lots of local farms with great fruit stands. Kerri, Tanya and I did a little tour of farms and I got some pears although it was peach season. The pear is the official fruit of Oregon.
Multnomah Falls - the 2nd highest year round waterfall in the US.
Eating Out :
Tin Shed- they have the best breakfast in town. It remindes me of a cute little place in Eugene, OR. I had their famous potato pancakes (basically hashbrowns) fiesta style with jalepeno peppers and salsa. We also had sweet potato french toast.
TeaChaiTe- Tanya thinks they have the best pumpkin chai she's had. I only drink bubble tea there. I tried the Red Bean flavor bubble tea. It's hard to find good Red Bean bubble tea and it was ok but I still think my Red Bean bubble tea is the best. :)
Portland City Grill- the best view in the city from the 30th floor.
Oba- kind of a ritzy spanish restaurant in the pearl, it has great happy hour prices. The rotisserie chicken tostata is awesome. Since I am alcohol-intolerant (it's an enzyme thing :), I drank marionberry lemonade.
Pastini- great inexpensive pasta!
Kennedy School McMenimens- The McMenimen brothers transform old buildings into restaurants, pubs, and theatres here in the NW. The Kennedy School is my favorite because of the beautiful outdoor garden seating. Tanya really loved her mediterranean chicken pizza. Of course we ordered tator tots too.
BBQ at my house - since we technically ate our food outside, i'll add this to the list. We had a BBQ outside with a few friends on our deck and then pulled out the firepit stand to roast marshmellows for smores in the backyard. Tanya cooked my smores for me. It reminding me of the time when we cooked marshmellows over a candle when the power went out during the hurricanes of '05.
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3 comments:
That list makes me tired just looking at it! But if I had 3 months or so, I think it'd be a pretty fun bunch of things to do. :)
Gosh, that's a lot of things squeezed into a weekend. Looked like you had a lot of fun!
I think I resent being called "old".
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