Sunday, 10 October 2010
Saturday, 9 October 2010
Day 11- Portland
(Guest blog, written by kirsty)
After our late night out last night we had a long lie this morning. We looked out the window to discover that the rain from last night was still going strong and didn't much feel like leaving the hotel. Eventually we ventured out and it was a good thing we did because we were about to have amazing brunch #2 of the holiday! The venue: sugar mama's. V's order: hash browns with sausage gravy (more white sauce than gravy, with pieces of sausage in). My order: the big easy (ham, fried egg, my absolute favourite breakfast item- grits, and a biscuit- ie a scone basically). It was a lovely tiny wee place and bizarrely had a violinist busking inside!
After brunch we had a wander about downtown but it was still pretty rainy. We went to a great shop called Reading Frenzy and bought some zines. It also had alot of nice stationery and books. Following the theme of this holiday, I could have bought WAY much more! By this time the rain was subsiding so we got to have a wander about the saturday market. My favourite stall was selling metal headband things that make you look like you have things stuck through your head like knives, arrows, scissors etc. I tried on one with a saw and the guy said to me "you look sharp"!
There is an amazing donut place in portland called voodoo donuts. We were going to wait in the queue but it went right round the block so we decided to leave it for another time. So watch this space.
We then got the max light rail across the river to a big mall, as I was on a mission. An old navy shaped mission. Mission accomplished, we had a wander around the mall. We got asked by some people in the mall to review a trailer for the film Haywire, which they paid us 3 dollars for!
There was a cinema in the mall too so we decided to see You Again which was hilarious and a jolly romp. After the film we got the light rail back up to the hotel, popping into hot lips on the way. This is a great pizza place that use only fresh local ingredients that are in season. So sometimes they don't use tomato sauce on the pizzas when tomatoes are not in season! They also sell delicious sodas so v got raspberry flavour and I got pear flavour- nice!
We are both pretty tired now but particularly v hence i'm writing the blog tonight.
The end.
After our late night out last night we had a long lie this morning. We looked out the window to discover that the rain from last night was still going strong and didn't much feel like leaving the hotel. Eventually we ventured out and it was a good thing we did because we were about to have amazing brunch #2 of the holiday! The venue: sugar mama's. V's order: hash browns with sausage gravy (more white sauce than gravy, with pieces of sausage in). My order: the big easy (ham, fried egg, my absolute favourite breakfast item- grits, and a biscuit- ie a scone basically). It was a lovely tiny wee place and bizarrely had a violinist busking inside!
After brunch we had a wander about downtown but it was still pretty rainy. We went to a great shop called Reading Frenzy and bought some zines. It also had alot of nice stationery and books. Following the theme of this holiday, I could have bought WAY much more! By this time the rain was subsiding so we got to have a wander about the saturday market. My favourite stall was selling metal headband things that make you look like you have things stuck through your head like knives, arrows, scissors etc. I tried on one with a saw and the guy said to me "you look sharp"!
There is an amazing donut place in portland called voodoo donuts. We were going to wait in the queue but it went right round the block so we decided to leave it for another time. So watch this space.
We then got the max light rail across the river to a big mall, as I was on a mission. An old navy shaped mission. Mission accomplished, we had a wander around the mall. We got asked by some people in the mall to review a trailer for the film Haywire, which they paid us 3 dollars for!
There was a cinema in the mall too so we decided to see You Again which was hilarious and a jolly romp. After the film we got the light rail back up to the hotel, popping into hot lips on the way. This is a great pizza place that use only fresh local ingredients that are in season. So sometimes they don't use tomato sauce on the pizzas when tomatoes are not in season! They also sell delicious sodas so v got raspberry flavour and I got pear flavour- nice!
We are both pretty tired now but particularly v hence i'm writing the blog tonight.
The end.
Day 10 - photos
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From: "Victoria Lindsay" <toerzy@googlemail.com>
Date: 9 Oct 2010 03:15
Subject: Day 10 - photos
To: "toerzy.kirsty@blogger.com" <toerzy.kirsty@blogger.com>
Day 10 - little people to portland
Today we visited the pumpkin farm owned by the stars of little people big world, if you watch the she show this info will be awesome and if you don't you will most likely be confused.
We got up and went to meet Craig near the farm but we had no means of communicating from the meeting point and 50 minutes later he still hadn't arrived so we went without him. One good thing about his tardiness was we saw Matt while we were waiting.
We arrived at the farm and bought tickets for the two tractor tours. They were both great, one went round the whole property and one went round to the wild west town where Matt's parents were waiting. K spoke to them and got her picture taken with them but I played it cool. Jeremy was driving one of the tractors but sadly we didn't get that one, we did see him though.
There was also a petting zoo with the cutest pig ever and lots of other animals. We also saw a baby lion and tiger but they were sleeping, very cute though.
For lunch I had a delicious corn dog and k had a burger and we shared a 'fry brick' - an actual brick of chips!
K was moaning cos she wanted to see amy but she wasn't about when she suddenly appeared! K was super happy and we chatted to her for a bit and k got a picture with her.
We then headed to portland where we are staying for the weekend. We checked into the hotel which is lovely and got on the wifi to find out that Craig had turned up super late and couldn't see us so we arranged to meet tonight instead.
K and I headed to Powell's which is a massive book shop, you need a map to find your way about. We were in there for hours! We bought a few things but we could have bought much much more!
We came to the hotel to drop off our purchases and get ready and went and met Craig. We went to a pub called north 45 not too far from the hotel. It was really nice and had table service so we didn't have to bother with going to the bar. We ate some food, drank some beer and talked some rubbish and suddenly it was after 2 so we called it a night and I'm now back at the hotel trying not to fall asleep while writing this!
Tomorrow we'll explore portland properly.
Thursday, 7 October 2010
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