Last week was pretty busy, as was my weekend, so I'm updating early Monday morning as Cayden rides his cars over my legs aka "bumps".
Mary Beth's parents were here all last week which did give me the opportunity to skip out on work early one afternoon afternoon to go swimming with Tim and his dog Dean. We drove 30 minutes to Sandy River, walked a bit only to find out that the river was still flooded, so we weren't going to be able to swim. We walked for a little while more through the woods and found a shaded spot to have a picnic.
Tim's roommate Lori is in culinary school so she is always making food, so she packed us a pretzel and some bread which were delicious! We stayed out there until 9pm when we noticed that Dean had taken advantage of our distraction while playing Pictionary to run away! We found him not too far from where we were and headed back to the car. We ended up going back to Portland for dinner at Bar Bar.
Last Sunday I went out to Mississippi in NE Portland to visit some shops and ended up buying a bike!
It's a 2 speed cruiser from the 50s with back pedal braking and gear change. It was $175 dollars and is oh so adorable! I finally got a lock and lights for it and just need to get a wicker basket for the front. Since I have no use for the bike where I live (it's far too hilly to even consider biking and I'm far enough from downtown where it would take too long to bike) so I'm leaving my bike at Tim's since N/NE Portland is generally where I'm hanging out. We're all going to go in on a communal bike rack in his driveway so I won't have to rely on him or his housemates to let me into the garage to get the bike.
I've been doing a lot of experimenting with cooking. Lately I've been into making fruit salsas! I made some cherry salsa the other day and it came out great!
The cherry is so subtle (especially when you eat it with chips) and mixed with tomatoes, onions and cilantro, it makes a great, light summer snack. I'm going to make some watermelon salsa this week. I also made strawberry rhubarb popsicles which were pretty good, if not pureed enough. This week I'll try kiwi popsicles and/or blueberry! Or maybe watermelon!
Friday night I went over to Tim's for dinner and a movie. We went to see TrollHunter which is a Norwegian mockumentary about a group of students who meet up with a man who hunts and kills trolls. It was pretty funny but really long and I think both Tim and I fell asleep during parts of it!
Afterwards we were meeting his friend Jon who is from Canada and touring the US. We went to Voodoo Doughnuts, which is a Portland staple that sells some pretty standard donuts but also some pretty disgusting ones loaded with sugar. For example:
That is a bacon maple donut off to the left that Tim bought. There's also donuts covered with different kinds of sugary cereal and peanut butter and bubble gum.
Had to get a picture with the big pink box of donuts outside of the Sandy Hut.
Saturday I met up with Tim and Jon again to go to the Mississippi street fair. It's a giant fair of local artists with their stands, food, and 5 stages where bands play. All the shops on Mississippi also have stands advertising their stuff, trying to bring in business.
We were there in the morning for a couple of hours, then headed back to Tim's. He did some work, I took Dean for a walk and then we all went with the dog back to the street fair. There was suppose to be some weird costume wrestling in compost but it didn't seem like it was happening, so we went to dinner instead and got some ice cream.
So, all in all I had a pretty eventful weekend! Now it's back to working long days and long weeks!
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