A Portland kind of weekend

This boring ol' two day weekend became extremely interesting very quickly. I was invited to Portland by Cielle to stay at her generous Aunts house in Hillsburrito, one of those suburbs. Anyway her Aunts house is nice, and so are her Aunt, and Grandma. They also have adorable dogs.
We headed up to Portland right after school on Friday, we listened to a "Good Stuff" mix most of the way. At a small Togo coffee place in Amity we got some coffee and relished the cold rainy November day with hot coffee. Upon arrival at Cielle's Aunts house, I realized how dark it was and only 12 after 5. That night we went to New Seasons (grocery) and got Jones soda and a bunch of little food items for our dinner. My favorite had to be the mystery orange fruit we got that turned out to be not what we had hoped, IT HAD SEEDS, BY GORGE! After mealtime we went for a quick shopping trip in some area, after walking around a bland Meyer and Frank we went to a Christopher & Banks store, with really ugly sweaters. At Christopher and Banks we had a philosophical discussion on creationism and true hapiness, which resided under a wild bunch of ugly sweaters. In the same store we held a quick dance party and then we left for Cielle's aunts house.We spent the rest of that evening watching music videos, which weren't of a numerous variety. The live performance by Devo was interesting, and also Ok Go's dance number in their backyard video, clever. During the night Cielle's aunts dog came into the room and apparently fell down into the open space under the lay out bed, and was there until we woke up the next morning.
The next morning we had a quick breakfast of eggs and junk and flashed out of the house to get to Reed College and listen to a famous reporter speak. It was Anne Curry, who is news reporter for Dateline, I wasn't exactly sure what she was there for, to tell us how Americans needed to do their part in saving the United States from complete doom, I guess. It started out as, "Oh golly, another one of those pep speeches, oh noooo," but then it turned into a debate. Portlanders, that’s what they were and they wanted to let Ann know they were doing ALL they could to save American, they were trying to end the war and get answers, it’s the rest of the US that is uneducated. Oh man you had to be there, the questions asked were shocking, these people wanted to know the truth about news media. One lady stood up and refused to let Anne accuse them of not doing their part in saving the US. After the talk we checked out the Reed College campus. In the campus store Cielle bought a fancy patch it has the words, "Communism Atheist and free love" written on it surrounding Reed College. We both enjoyed some Naked juice which is a lot like Odwalla juice, but a bit healthier. It is an old college but it is still good. We shopped on Hawthorn a few blocks away from Reed, we went to Red Light, Gregs and the Buffalo Exchange, and stopping to eat at Chopsticks. They had good food, and their chopsticks were pink, imagine! Home again, this nights meal was less enjoyable than the previous night, but it was still delicious, and we went all the way to Fred Meyer to buy instant bake cookies. The kind that is frozenish and all you have to do is slice it and put it on a cookie sheet. Mmm. We watched 13 going on 30 for a while and then after the cookies were done, it was time for Take the Money and Run, a mockumentary starring Woody Allen.
This morning we were hoping to get out of the house by 9:30 am to hit up a few stores downtown, before leaving Portland. Downtown we marched around Powells, the other Buffalo exchange and Whole foods. In whole foods I bought stuff for my mom, mainly healthy chocolate. Our traditional Baguette buying happened we couldn't leave Whole Foods without one. We got some snacks and lactose free Tillamook cheese for the ride home.
In ending it was a fun weekend, but dang it, why is school not that much fun?!?!?!!?!?!?!!?!?!
THANKS Cielle!