Roadtrip north, Portland
Trip Start
May 26, 2008
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Trip End
May 2009
Portland,
Oregon,
United States
Saturday, June 14, 2008
so we took to the road once again and headed northwest to Portland...on route to Portland we had a pit stop for some coffee where Emily feel head over heels for some devilishly handsome guy...sadly her attempts to woe him failed. So on we went again leaving her love behind.
happily Emily's friends parents (Leta and Rick) had accepted to take us in for 2nights and we were blessed with Sharon's first attempt of cooking in the kitchen...we were taken care of and was nearly just like being at home with mammy Geary
on route to portland
.The next day we took a wander around the Pearl district and had a look at a few shops. we were walking around for a while when we started noticing people dressed rather strange and then it clicked...they weren't woman dressed up but men as women.....anything goes apparently but all was not lost for the city of Portland ...it was gay pride parade day so this was not an every day occurrence.we couldn't help ourselves so we stopped and did some people watching down in the park by the water front.
We then took a trip to Portland's beautiful Rose garden of which i believe is the oldest rose testing garden in the US. it was just lovely, family's were out and about enjoying the weather and some were picnicing in nearby green areas. anyway we decided to go to check out the Japanese gardens and while we were walking away from the rose gardens up a path some guy asked us to take a picture of him streaking, he supposedly had a bet on with some mates that he couldn't get someone to take his picture while streaking. Before we knew it Emily had his camera in hand when we realised what was actually going on. so away he went striped off. (we were in such a public place that we knew we were safe) we waited for him to run but he never did and so she just took some pics.we assumed he was going to put some clothes back on before returning to get his camera but oh no that would have been too difficult for this guy
Leta and Emily before breakfast
. we went away trying to mask the held in burst of laughter..which once we were around the corner came flooding out...we were in complete shock...it was like one of those things that you cant believed happened but genuinely did and only for having the camera at hand no one would ever believe us :)That night we spent most of the night just hanging out and chatting over some wine after making dinner for Leta and Rick as promised .explaining our travel plans, talked about Ireland and many other things...in doing so i was asked what i was missing from home if anything..Emily mentioned how Ger misses the food sometimes and so that conversation started...little did i know that poor sweet Leta wanted to recreate a bit of Ireland for me the next morning. i arrived downstairs to a feed of American sausage, baked beans and mashed potatoes. That has to have been the sweetest thing ever! After our feed we took to the road once more...heading North for Seattle!
