Another August update

Hi everyone,
We have another August update. This weekend is very hot 100 degree for almost 3 days. We have been doing things around town, there are a lot of free stuffs to do in Portland in August. At the Washington Park, there are free concerts for 16 days... wow!!!
Here is The Lions of Batucada. They play Brazilian festival music, pretty fun for about 10 minutes. They would be a lot of fun if they were in a parade or something, they were somewhat boring without a parade.


Sanyu! An Evening of Gospel and Much More.
This is gospel music, this is a lot more fun than the previous band.
Portland SummerFest Opera in the Park: Lucia di Lammermoor by Donizetti
Opera in the park, pretty cool. They really need a subtitle screen, I had no idea what the story was all about. The singing was fun though and hey, it's free...

Roses are still nice.
On Saturday, we went to the beach. It was hot for 2-3 days now, Saturday was 100 degree and the beach was much cooler. I think it was around 70 degrees at the beach. We had breakfast at Camp 18 on the way to the beach. Big foot here.

Another Big Foot! This is Big Foot country.

We were planning to go to Manzanita, but stopped at Cannon Beach instead. It was cold and we were thinking we should put the convertible top up. Once we parked, the weather got nicer and we didn't want to drive anymore.

A lot of Portlanders went to the beach to escape from the heat. This is haystack rock, one of the most photographed feature of Oregon beaches.

time to go home, let's beat the traffic. It was really hot once we got more in land.



Today is Sunday and we're just staying home and maybe go to the pool and watch the Olympic and catch up on movies and probably go to Library. :)

First August Weekend

The first weekend of August was quite busy. There are a bunch of stuffs to do in the summer and August starts off with a lot of fun.

Saturday:
First stop, our beautiful downtown Library to drop off dvds and get some new books.

Next stop: PSU. This is IONE plaza, we lived here for one year in a one bedroom apartment. They are redoing the courtyard, put in a water feature, and raised the rent quite a bit.

The Benson House, this is the PSU alumni association office.
Saturday market, right in the middle of PSU. Freshly caught Salmon for a pretty good price.
berries
artichokes
A great dane, what a big dog!
$10 for 5 pounds of blueberry, a good deal. We ate almost half of the bag already in 2 days, just eat them fresh, yummm...
fava beans, what do you do with them???
Iranian Festival, next to Farmer market.

Our lunch break: babaganush (smokey and creamy, best I've had in a long time), Kildobeh (?) lamb and beef kabob sandwich, and top off with a mint yogurt soda, good good good.....
A guy complaining about Iran's President Arminijad. The poster said - The next Hitler.
That Arminijad is a nut job.
The PSU library.

Random kid with random art work.
I just got new Dr. Martens shoes on clearance sale - $30.
Joe Cool. :)


Redbull Flugtag came to Portland this year. Tons of people come from all area to see the show, tons of boats on the river.
flying sneakers

Wiley Coyote
Bananas people





Chinese take out boxdragon boat
plane, the propeller spins!
Sunday:
We went out to the old house to mow the lawn. The renter left so we have to take care of the lawn for a bit. We'll get a new renter next Friday though so all is well.
Went food shopping and came home, had lunch, then went out around our condo to take some pictures of Michelle in her new giraffe dress.
This is in Pettygrove park, right next to our condo.
The sculpture is "The Dreamer."

Looks kind of like Snoopy, the dog from Peanut comic (the sculpture, not me.)

The Lovejoy fountain in the Lovejoy park across the street. Pettygrove and Lovejoy are two of the city founder, they flipped a coin to have the right to decide between Boston and Portland. Pettygrove was from Maine and he won.

Crocs (the shoes) are good for something. :)Random sculpture next to the American Plaza condo near us.
suck it in. :)

Michelle likes her new dress!

July update

Lily Welcomes you to the July Blog. We got the yellow orchid on the left from IKEA, it's doing great. Zoey hasn't bother it at all. The peonies are from the PSU farmer market, they blooms over the week and are really nice.

July has been busy with many things, but not that much fun stuffs. We finally had to get comcast internet since the free Portland wireless shut down. Oh well, it's fast and we got free cable TV just in time for the Olympic next week. Michelle was sick the last 2 weeks and she is just getting better.

We went up to the Rose Garden in early July, the roses smell great!


Like my new favorite cap? Michelle didn't like it at first, she said it looks like Mao's cap. But she's used to it now.

The Salem World Beat festival. We drove down to Salem (1 hour) and went to listen to music and have food from around the world. We had some really good Taco Al Pastor, yummm.... We also had lumpia and fry bread, ooohh... greasy.... no more of that stuff for a while.



The pirate dance.... hmm..... Portland is big on Pirates, there is a pirate store, pirate bar, talk like a pirate day, etc...
Michelle's uncle and aunt, Randy and Daniel, came up to visit and we went wine tasting in Newburg. It was pretty nice, we went somewhat early and got home at a reasonable time. This is Rex Hill winery and it was a big hit with Randy and Daniel.
Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory - free show at the Washington Park. It was fun for a free show and only lasted 90 minutes, perfect lenght for a play.

Oompa Loompa doompadee doo
I've got another puzzle for you
Oompa Loompa doompadah dee
If you are wise you'll listen to me

Oompa Loompa Doompadee Dah
If you're not greedy you will go far
You will live in happiness too
Like the Oompa
Oompa Loompa doompadee do