Portland - Shoes & Friends
Sunday we majorly learned our lesson from yesterday and crammed as many different friends in as possible :-) We started out by going to the Doug Fir for breakfast with my friends Amanda & Jim. Amanda was in Phoenix visiting us last weekend, but Jim had ripped the tendons in his legs and couldn't come. Sure enough Jim came hopping in on crutches and painkillers, but it was great to see that he's still his usual funny self. They also had a gift for us, a beautiful Vargas print in a delightfully tacky plastic frame that Jim had found at an auction or something. It's one of the nicest gifts I've ever been given ;-)
After breakfast, it was all about Sally for the next hour! Her favorite shoe store is PDXshoes and we'd dropped by there within hours of arriving in Portland but they had nothing she liked and she was devastated! Our friend Lisa who lives over in Multnomah Village suggested she check out a new store there called Switch. We did, and Sally nearly bought everything in the store!
After heading back to Ronnie & Heathers for a couple of hours, we drove out to Tannesbourne to visit our friends Lee & Anicia. Lee has just bought a condo out there in the burbs after being a committed city guy (N.Y./Portland) all his life. It's a tough adjustment but his new place is great. There's lots of shopping nearby, MAX is close, and his windows look out onto a beautiful piece of... well, marsh land, but it was much nicer then that sounds :-) We'd intended to drop by for an hour tops as we had other stuff to get done, but after lots of chatting and a little bit of Crowded House, 2pm had turned into 4.30pm without us even noticing and we had to race back to Ronnie & Heathers for a dinner party that we were about to be late for.
Sally's other brother Jeff came over for dinner with his new-to-us girlfriend Nicole. We all sat around eating & chatting for ages; Jeff and I wasted way too much time comparing what albums we had on our iPhones, which left me wondering why my iPhone's speaker was so much quieter then his; and we all ended the night playing some board game whose name I've forgotten :-) I won a round or two though which wasn't bad for my first time playing!
