Portland Trip: Part 1

When you have two friends' birthdays in one week, one of those turning 21, and they have friends from Eugene and Portland with birthdays as well, a road trip is in order. Casey, Candace, Drew, and I left Medford Friday afternoon with Eugene in sight. We got a motel room near downtown so that us girls could just walk back from the bars that we ran into while the boys were at some friends. 2 am rolled around and we all decided on sleep...we got little, but we tried.

Candace and I

Leaving Eugene, we headed for Beaverton to stay with another friend. Naturally we had to stop at Woodburn. Us girls were itching for some city shopping, and we put small dents into our bank accounts at our first location. Oh joy. But as tempting as it was, I DID resist the urge to buy something from Coach...but a few things were pretty.

Dropping off our bags, we then turned ourselves loose to look for dinner. Chevy's it was, with some Mexi food, a couple starter drinks, and some silly pictures indeed.

Chevy's

Casey, Drew, Candace

Me, Casey, Drew

He stole the camera...

After dinner we dropped Candace off with some of her friends, agreeing to meet up again later to go out. To entertain ourselves, the boys and myself drove around towards downtown to attempt to get pictures for me. Stopping in at the Rose Garden to use the restrooms led to a fun little discovery: a hockey game between the Portland Winterhawks and the Kelowna Rockets. Naturally, the three of us find a hockey game on accident. Of course, we went. It was much bigger than we were used to, and we felt proud to know a lot of the rules and things that took place.

After the game we met back up with the other group at a place called Holocene. From here, the bar hopping and running around downtown began. I had 0 drinks. Zero. None. I played Mommy like nobody's business. I carried shoes, held cards, checked phones, and monitored the walking capabilities of other folks that were unable to do so themselves. Best part of the night: seeing the boys' faces when the only place left with no cover charge was a gay bar. Talk about shock and terror. We left and headed back to Candace's friends house to play card games and try again to catch some well deserved zzzzzzs.

From here, I fell asleep out of exhaustion and the other kept playing for another half hour or so until sprawling out on the bed and floor.