Good morning, evening or afternoon everyone,
This past weekend you may have noticed if you read the blog that Jillian, Allison and I were in Portland Oregon. It is about 3 hours south of Seattle. We were headed down there for a couple of reasons. Ours friend Julia's birthday and Her husband Paul was running in the Portland Marathon, which is 26.2 miles long.
We headed out about 8pm Friday night to avoid traffic and to watch the first game of the Family softball final. They won the first game and lost the second.
We stayed just out of Portland for Friday night at a friends house in Battleground.
Saturday morning we headed in to the city of Portland making a quick stop/ drive through memory lane of Jillian's old university. Were she picked up a new hoodie. Then Jillian took us into the City were she showed us around districts such as the Pearl and Hawthorne districts. Where there was great bookshops, opshops, restaurants, stores and an atmosphere that was very welcoming.
I finally got to skate Burnside Skate park. Let me just say this park is the most intense park I have ever skater, the videos and magazine photo's do not it justice at all. The locals were killing it. And a funny little side note I rocked up with my skateboard and started rolling around and most people were very welcoming. But when a these guys rocked up to take photo's and bunch of the locals stopped skating and very firmly told these guys that if they wanted to take photo's they would have to go get them some beer. When they came back with beer the locals stepped it up a notch and started smashing parts of the park that I was getting worked on. Plus it seem like they are adding to the park and it looks rad.
On Saturday night we all went out to dinner with Julia, Paul and both of their families to Celebrate Julia's 26th b'day. To Julia and Paul's favorite Mexican restaurant. It was delicious and a fantastic time.
The next day Paul started his race at seven in the morning. He was off way to early for the most of the group. We met up with him at the 22nd mile and we found out that Paul was having a harder time then expected. So I got the bright idea to jog with Paul fro a while well that while ended up being for 4 or so miles. in skate shoes, jeans and a hooded jumper. Let me just say I was hurting the next day. I can not imagine how Paul was feeling....But Paul finished in 5 hours and 45 mins. Everyone was very proud and impressed with Paul.
After the raced finished we all went out for lunch with Julia and Paul's family. I had to skip out to catch up with a friend of mine Anna and her boyfriend. We went out to coffee and had a great time.
Oh I was walking around taking photo's while we waited at mile 22 fro Paul and I found this desk and chair. I had to have a photo taken with it and you will see in the photo a jacket I bought in the Hawthorne district at an op shop.
After a great weekend we headed home and slept very well...
Hope you are all doing well..
Peace out Matty
