Here's a quick recap of our July since my last post in the beginning of July.
A few weeks ago I went to Portland Meadows with some people from work. We dressed up like we were going to the Kentucky Derby and had a great time. There were even a few other twenty somethings dressed up as ridiculously as we were so that was fun. Here are some pictures from that night.
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| These are my bets - I had no idea what I was doing and didn't win anything |
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| Did I mention it was $1 beer night? :) |
Peanut Butter also had her first bath in the new house. She was not very happy about it!
Our neighbor has been putting in some kind of concrete path that we can't quite figure out. Its been a multi-week project that has the dogs quite upset. But it looks like hopefully they will be done soon? Can't wait to see what the end product looks like.
Then a few weekends ago we had a pretty eventful Saturday. We started the day off with hitting the driving range. I am somewhat determined to re-learn to play golf and not be totally embarrassed. This was day one at the driving range but I've been back a few times and even went to a Ladie's Night clinic. This week I have a networking event at a driving range that should be interesting!
After the range we went in search of some lunch and ended up at a street fair on Mississippi Avenue. This is a street in Southeast Portland that we are big fans of. We've been to a few restaurants on that street a few times and decided to check out the street fair and see what it was all about. It was crazy!
We got there towards the end of it and it was still totally packed. All these booths are local photographers, crafters, etc. and then there were also food carts and other booths for local businesses.
This is a booth we saw that was selling a traditional cheese bread you find in Brazil. We went back twice because Victor liked them so much. But I couldn't get him to try to talk to the girls at the booth in Portuguese :) I think they might be selling these in some stores in town, but they will never compare to Rosa's homemade!
So we finally got some food from some trucks and it was AMAZING! I had a korean pork belly wrap that was to die for. It didn't last long enough to take a picture of :)
Victor got this catfish po boy that was awesome. My first reaction was fish from a food truck in 80+ degree weather? Gross. But it was the best catfish we had ever had. Now we don't eat a ton of catfish, but after living in the south, I thought what we had there was as good as catfish could probably get. WRONG. This was awesome. Here's Victor digging in...
We will have to go back to these trucks at some point!
After the food trucks we went to see the Timbers play the LA Galaxy in soccer. It was my first time at Jeld-Wen field and it was so much fun! Plus we got to see Beckham score a few pretty stellar goals. Here are some pics
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| Here's Beckham in his pink shoes |
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| Letting out the green flares after we scored a goal |
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| Us in our Timbers gear :) |
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| Beckham again :) |
So even though the Timbers lost it was still a great game to see. That was a pretty big day for us so we spent most of Sunday recuperating and catching up around the house :)
Last weekend we went over to the Oregon Brewers Festival downtown to check that out. I swear there is something cool going on every weekend here, its pretty overwhelming! The Brewers Festival was awesome. I can't even tell you how many different beers and brewers they have there, but you just have to buy a mug and then each 3 oz. taster is $1. You can go from beer to beer and taste them all if you wanted to! This was really cool and we got to taste some awesome beers from local brewers that we never would have tasted otherwise. I think if we go again next year we'll be a little more prepared and probably go with a group of people.
So we've been enjoying the amazing weather here as much as possible. The other night we tried to hang out of the porch and I was so cold I had to wear a blanket around my shoulders. This week it has warmed up quite a bit and was in the 90's this weekend.
On Friday I had a volunteer day for work at a non profit in Portland. After volunteering all day we had a company picnic and barbecue. Victor got to go to that and meet some of my coworkers for the first time which was awesome. After a long day we just came home and crashed on Friday night.
Last night we met one of our good friends from college who is a native Oregonian for dinner in the Pearl District. It was warm, but not as warm as it is in Texas or North Carolina! Look, we are both wearing long sleeves :) We went out to eat at a place called the Jamison which is on Jamison Square. It was really fun and great to catch up. Today we slept in and went to the Oregon Air Show in Hillsboro. I'll post some pictures from that and how our house is shaping up sometime this week... I promise :)
Have a great week!
tasha
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