It's August in Portland and all is well. The weather has been good this year, we only got one week of really really hot weather so far. There have been more rain than usual, but that's ok in the summer, it's nice that it's not super hot.

We went to the street fair at Clinton/Division on the SE side of town. It's very close actually, just a few minutes drive. They had a little parade, looks like anyone can dress up and join in. We also got a little bench for our balcony from one of the stores there. We had lunch at a BBQ place, good chicken wings and beef ribs. We got the lunch special ($5) and that was perfect portion for us. Other people ordered a regular plate and they were huge.... If we ate that we'd be in food coma for the rest of the day. This is Stella scooter and the side car, I want one. 8)


Free Wizard of Oz play at Washington Park Amphitheater next to the Rose Garden. This was a lot of fun. It is outdoor so they had to be a lot more imaginative since they don't have as much props like in the theater. For example, the yellow brick road is a girl dressed up in a yellow outfit with bricks on top of her head and Dorothy had to follow her around. 8)



First Thursday and The Next Big Thing...
Every First Thursday of the month all the gallery and artists in the Pearl open up their space to show art works. The Next Big Thing is held by the Portland Transportation Commission to celebrate the completion of a section of the new MAX tracks. Portland is building more MAX tracks, in the downtown area, it will be from around Chinatown to PSU. This will be right near us so we'll have more transportation choices.
This Elephant statue is on the North Park block near Chinatown. I've been meaning to climb this thing for a long time. Yahoo!!!!

The original Hung Far Low restaurant. 8)
They actually moved to 82nd street now, but the sign is still here .
A loft building in Chinatown. A few loft was opened to showcase the artist's work. Pretty cool old style stair - 4 stories.

Some one working on a large graffiti art - at least it's on canvas and not on the wall.
BBQ, we didn't have any this time. This guy in the blue shirt next to Michelle is huge.

Afterward, we went to Pioneer courthouse square on the way home. Redbull had a photography display up. There are many cool photos, mostly extreme sports type.

SurfingSnowboard.
That's all for now. I'll call mom now. Happy 60th Birthday!!!! 8)