Seattle road trip

I listened to The Killers new CD and wanted to go to see them in concert, but they were only going to play in Seattle. So I go ahead and got tickets and tried not to think too much about the drive. We went to H&M, a clothing store in Seattle, but we didn't buy anything. Then went to have Chinese food. Michelle wanted Beijing duck so we ordered it. The duck was just a regular BBQ duck, man what a rip off!!! Anyway, the salt pepper squid was good. Then went to the show after dinner, it was a great show.

Death Cab For Cuties - they were ok, not that great.

The Killers were awesome, they played a bunch of great songs from all their albums.

Excellent show.


We got lucky and got out of the parking structure very quickly. I thought ahead and parked near the exit. Also remembered to park backed in, backing out into the crowd and cars trying to get out would have been a pain. 8)
Finally got home at 2am, whew, we are getting too old for this.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone,
We just stayed home the whole day and didn't go anywhere. The Portland zoo had a free day and we were thinking about going to see the new baby elephant, but it's too cold. We've seen baby elephants before anyway, and we could pet them in Chiangmai. 8)
Michelle made a great Thanksgiving meal today. No turkey though. We got green beans, yams, mushroom risotto, rack of lamb and Oregon pinot noir. We got the rack of lamb from Trader Joe's and it was really good, juicy and yummy. We took a big nap afterward and just kick back, didn't make it to the zoo.

November

It's November already, the weather is getting cooler and wetter. We are mostly staying in town on the weekends now since it's difficult to drive in the rain.
We still have a few nice days left. This is early November.
Pill Hill - Oregon Health Science University, VA hospital, and other hospitals. The leaves are turning read and gold all over, very nice.We went for a walk at the waterfront park. Here we are at the downtown marina. The Portland beach is in the background there, it's pretty rocky.

The Hawthorn bridge is getting an examination. Convention center in the background.

This is the middle of November after 10 days of crazy rain and gray sky. Beautiful view of Mount Hood at dawn.




We went to get some food. Michelle got a nice veggie/fruit sandwich from Half & Half, a granola crunchy coffee shop that plays obnoxious music. I got a Thai green curry fried rice from I Love Thai Food cart.

Another food cart - a Korean Bento shop. This cart used to be a Corn on the Cob cart from LA. The Korean ladies just painted Korean BBQ line at the top and added corn on the cob to their menu. They sell yummy Kalbi and Bibimbop.

While we're waiting for the Street car to come home, we saw this window at Knit Purl a knitting/fabric shop. All the "food" were made from wool. i liked the carrots, neat.

When we got home, the view is still awesome!!!

Happy November. I'm looking forward to Thanksgiving, I'll take an extra day off to relax a bit.
bye for now