Portland Day 22 - Overcast

One of the best days yet, spent celebrating the famous Rose Festival with a great group of friends. Started off the morning polishing off, or rather attempting to polish off, the delicious "man-cakes" at the Stepping Stone Cafe. These pancakes are GINORMOUS! They are the size of the whole plate, as you can see. Well, imagine a stack of 3 of those. They were featured on the TV show Man vs. Food. I couldn't even finish off 1 whole one, but I attribute that to my side of eggs and hash browns. If I look tired, that's cause I just woke up not too much earlier. Note the time on the clock behind me. Worth it? Heck yes!

After breakfast we went to the Rose Parade. There were only about 4 or 5 floats with fresh flowers/roses though.....

The rest of the parade seemed to consist of rodeo queens and marching bands.

And don't forget the sailors who pulled in for Fleet Week!

We then wandered through Saturday Market, which I hope to check out wholeheartedly very soon and had lunch at Old Town Pizza. It has a haunted past, which you can read about on the website. Afterwards we checked out Powell's, the biggest and best bookstore I have ever been in. It covers a whole city block and is multiple stories. It's so big and you can get lost very easily so they have a store map you can carry around with you. Oh my gosh, I was in heaven. It's my new favorite place. I loved just wandering around and looking at all the books and the different sections. I ended up buying this book. Hopefully it's good and hopefully I get through it sometime in the next 2 yrs. while I'm busy studying my life away.

And my personal favorite part of the day:

Portland Day 21 - Very Cloudy

I got out of school early today so I decided to take a different way home. Bad idea. I got stuck in MAJOR traffic. It took me over an hour to get home and I was very annoyed with all of the chillax drivers that follow the speed limit, brake for yellow lights, and stop for every pedestrian. Not to mention the multiple times I almost got grazed sitting in the left lane while oncoming traffic was turning left. I love my back country road and will stick to it from now on.

Portland Day 20 - Some Sun

Key word is some....

I've decided that I'm going to go to Institute, no matter who or how many people show up. There may have been some social pressure to go in Utah, but there's definitely not any here. Regardless, I need to make it a priority. The only catch is it's 2 hrs. long, straight. No breaks.

Afterwards my friends Erin and Aubrey and I checked out the dudes playing basketball at the church. Bahaha, I mean we checked out basketball, which only dudes were playing. We'll start playing with them next week. I played every week with peeps in my Provo ward and will start playing here now. Except there was about 20 guys who showed up to play...... I'll just have to be on the winning team is all. Simple as that.

Portland Day 19 - Cloudy

Tough day...... 3 hours of class. This morning we took our class pictures that will soon be on the school website as the class of 2013, as well as our individual photos that our preceptors will eventually see once we start rotations. Who would have thought we'd have a whole morning off during our first month of PA school? Love it.

Oh, and I totally chickened out on playing basketball. There were just too many guys and not a single girl. Maybe next time.....

Portland Day 18 - Cloudy

I met a dude at the gym tonight. He invited me to play basketball with the bros tomorrow. I'm feeling a little rusty, but I think I'll go check it out and show 'em what I got.....