They arrived in to pdx at 11pm on Thursday night after driving up over a week and a half from la via reno/sf/various places. I took them to backspace as the only place I could think for late night eats in Portland that didn't resemble station/road food as they had been living off it for the majority of the trip. They stayed open for us as they couldn't believe we traveled 'so far'. (we failed to mention how long we had been all been in the states for).
That Friday I went to work to organize the 'hooray for Hollywood' street part while the group (minus ashen who just had to go find some wifi) explored and played golf. After getting picked up we went to the famous Portland rose garden in Washington park:
We walked around whilst trying to think of the most American activities to do; we came up with batting cages. Sadly I don't have pictures of us 'killing' the balls but the place we went to 'batting a thousand' was awesome! We got on Hawthorne checked out Powell's (biggest used bookstore in pdx which is seriously amazing) and then headed off for some food which caused more hassle than we thought and a taxi ride but in the end we got food and went back to Hawthorne blvd to go here:
The Baghdad- at least a 1000 capacity theater that hosts tables and couches instead of the standard seating and sells beer in pitches and pizza slices. There was a 11pm showing of predator that the guys thought would be pretty rad so we planned to get back after some food and we did just five minuets left, we joined the huge cue I got 'carded' and thanks to this website I got in.
As soon as the film started it came apparent that most people there had seen the film at least three/four times. Quotes were shouted/jokes were laughed at an all mighty roar of 'gt back to the chopper'. finally after just going to see films the cinema felt like a form of entertainment, people got involved and it was hilarious even if tit was a serious action film. Be it occasionally annoying America crowds are fun just make sure you go to see a film you have already seen and won't mind missing most of it due to shouts of 'USA' (and then counter shouts of 'AUSTRIA' by the English visitors correcting the Americans).
After geeking out for a considerable amount of time and also falling asleep for part of the film due the couches being comfortable and the amount of popcorn eaten making me take a food nap we headed back to my house to sleep and prepare for the next day which is in an entirely different blog post.
FYI (how American is that) this is what I call 'home'
xo
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