Portland, Oregon

Once we got to Portland, we ate dinner at Ikea (Swedish Meatball combo plates all around! For those keeping score at home, that’s 15 meatballs per plate x 2 of us = 30 meatballs. Thirty. Meatballs.) and then drove to Powell’s, the biggest new & used bookstore ever (World’s Largest?) which I love SO. MUCH. Like we could have stayed there all night, but we’re traveling on a budget so we picked out a couple of things about baseball and America and some postcards and got out of there with On, who had come to meet us. Being from Portland, On was the perfect person to lead us around. He took us over to Voodoo Doughnuts, which Gina had recommended to us (she told us to ask for her tall, bearded friend Kevin, but the tall, bearded man at the counter claimed not to be Kevin and there is no Kevin that works there, so.) and got a vanilla frosted donut covered in Captain Crunch cereal. Yummy, but we could each only have two bites (still full from all the meatballs.. there’s a “that’s what she said” in there probably but I’m too lazy and NO WE ARE NOT TIRED OF THAT’S WHAT SHE SAID JOKES YET GET OVER IT) before we had to throw it out. On took us walking along the water, around Pioneer Square, etc. We saw lots of fountains, bridges (they’re famous for them), statues of critters, and lots and LOTS of scary crazies and hipster crazies and the fact that we didn’t get mugged still impresses me. We passed the old Ace hotel, which is now a coffee place and a bar on one side and maybe a hotel upstairs but I don’t remember what On said, and they had a sweet old photo booth in which we took a magical set of photos. It was getting a little late, so we went back to Wendell (both extremely relieved that he was not broken into) and found our hotel after only a few struggles.

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