portland japanese garden

portland japanese garden
Originally uploaded by megan_n_smith_99

home from rose city.. it was a really good trip. jesse and i drove down to portland on saturday morning. we met up with his friend jennifer and explored the saturday market a bit - it was fun but packed since it was their 1st weekend at their new expanded location. homemade coffee icecream with toffee bits for the win. then we wandered around a bit, and went to powells. i had never been there before - really! it was pretty cool. we all got some books. i think i could have settled for a good long while in the children's book room! i am a junkie for children's books. they have the best pictures, though!

then we had a wonderful dinner at mama mia's. they had gluten free pasta! and the broccoli, cooked in olive oil and garlic.

after that we checked into our hotel - which was awesome. a really nice room. it had a little kitchen, a living room area, and a huge comfy bed. it was near the water and nice and quiet. a good deal. after that we took jennifer home and saw a bit of her neighborhood -- Hawthorne, which was very cool. then off to sleep.

sunday morning we enjoyed the free breakfast - far superior to most free hotel breakfasts, then wandered hawthorne a bit - went to the yarn garden! they had the Diarufuran diakeito yarn i needed for the fit-n-flare trumpet skirt in knitting ligerie style - which i had such a hard time finding even online! so that was pretty awesome. (this is the skirt, by the way : trumpet skirt.

then we went to the rose gardens and the japanese gardens - so beautiful and peaceful! then dinner and off back to seattle. it was a long drive home and i was nodding off - so it's a good thing jesse was driving. it was a great trip and it was just SO GOOD to get away and relax. i really like portland and i liked jesse's friend and we just had a really good time. we'll go back soon and see her again when she comes to seattle soon. we already have a list of things we want to do NEXT trip. next time we will take the train. it's great to live fairly close to a fun city like portland.