Friday and Oktoberfest
On Friday I made the foolhardy decision to laugh in the face of my impending deadlines, sleep in all morning, and have fun all afternoon. This being the following Sunday, my deadlines are now laughing at me. Oh well.
I met up with some folks and we took the bus to downtown Portland mid-afternoon. The bus to downtown takes about a half hour, winding its way through neighbourhoods and rather impressively crossing the bridge over the Willamot river before it hits the city. I will have to somehow take a picture at that point, you can see a Portland vista as well as Mount St.Helens and Mount Hood; it gives you a sense of scale that you can't get when walking the streets downtown. Anyway the bus costs $1.35 per ticket and you can ride around where you like for four hours.
Once in town we got the free (free!) streetcar down to 23rd. Charlotte took a photo of Erin, Emily, Hannah and I standing at the streetcar stop. Then we went to Rose's restaurant and ate a whole lot of food. The cakes there were bigger than your head and oh so tasty. Thank you to Emily for showing us the way. We stayed there a while and then went to Powell's, because I don't seem to be able to go downtown without a trip to Powell's. I bought two books, one story anthology and a book of poetry by Gwendolyn Brooks. Books in the States are half the price of those back home, so I figure I'm actually saving money when buying stacks of them.
Then we headed back to campus for Oktoberfest, with a polka band, beer and sausages, and a German dance party. There was also a beer garden with free Hefeweizen, but they were being strict on ID so most of my chums had to stay outside, haha. Jeremy and I (Jeremy is the one who looks like Ferris Bueller, apparently our friendship is not ruined after all) tried to smuggle beer out to the poor underagers- Jeremy managed to somehow hide two full glasses of beer in his sweater, but I got caught carrying mine.
After the beer garden we stood around on the front lawn avoiding various spontaneous Greek wrestling matches that sprung up, and having a chat. Then we had a bit of a dance at the dance party, which by this point had shed its German polka aspects. I can't remember what I did after that. I have a feeling I went back to the dorm where some Anna Mannonites were watching a Cary Grant movie, and then the episode of Xena:Warrior Princess where Xena solves the Trojan War.
I met up with some folks and we took the bus to downtown Portland mid-afternoon. The bus to downtown takes about a half hour, winding its way through neighbourhoods and rather impressively crossing the bridge over the Willamot river before it hits the city. I will have to somehow take a picture at that point, you can see a Portland vista as well as Mount St.Helens and Mount Hood; it gives you a sense of scale that you can't get when walking the streets downtown. Anyway the bus costs $1.35 per ticket and you can ride around where you like for four hours.
Once in town we got the free (free!) streetcar down to 23rd. Charlotte took a photo of Erin, Emily, Hannah and I standing at the streetcar stop. Then we went to Rose's restaurant and ate a whole lot of food. The cakes there were bigger than your head and oh so tasty. Thank you to Emily for showing us the way. We stayed there a while and then went to Powell's, because I don't seem to be able to go downtown without a trip to Powell's. I bought two books, one story anthology and a book of poetry by Gwendolyn Brooks. Books in the States are half the price of those back home, so I figure I'm actually saving money when buying stacks of them.
Then we headed back to campus for Oktoberfest, with a polka band, beer and sausages, and a German dance party. There was also a beer garden with free Hefeweizen, but they were being strict on ID so most of my chums had to stay outside, haha. Jeremy and I (Jeremy is the one who looks like Ferris Bueller, apparently our friendship is not ruined after all) tried to smuggle beer out to the poor underagers- Jeremy managed to somehow hide two full glasses of beer in his sweater, but I got caught carrying mine.
After the beer garden we stood around on the front lawn avoiding various spontaneous Greek wrestling matches that sprung up, and having a chat. Then we had a bit of a dance at the dance party, which by this point had shed its German polka aspects. I can't remember what I did after that. I have a feeling I went back to the dorm where some Anna Mannonites were watching a Cary Grant movie, and then the episode of Xena:Warrior Princess where Xena solves the Trojan War.
posted by susie r at 3:08 PM
8 Comments:
Well, you've finally the art of appearing, posing in a photo, yet still managing to hide your face. Ah, Susie, will we never learn what you look like? Meanwhile, my current music tip is Bat For Lashes, which you will either like or hate.
finally *mastered* the art, of course.
Susiemon, your writing is becoming increasingly Americanized! i feel i ought to say 'pull yerself together lass and talk proper' but i actually quite like it :D
I've just been to the post to send you something (and i didn't crunch a single snail on the way, quite an achievement!) And i really do suck coz i wanted it to be a surprise but i'm rubbish at keeping things like that a secret, so i'm v.sorry that you know you're going to get post.
Love you!! xxx
I'm about to chug myself over to a cafe and write too, so I guess that's another surprise letter down the pan. Thanks for the skull by the way, it's currently being looked at by the Gators.
P.S. This Xena: Warrior Princess obsession is getting out of hand...
it's something beyond sinister that all comments on this so far have been posted by "nick"s of various types. i sense world domination.
the nicks are taking over, ace!
I would like to assure any non-Nicks reading this that the above posters are three separate people, rather than just different manifestations of the same schizophrenic personality.
Ooh, letters! So exciting. I love getting post/mail here, it gives me warm fuzzy feelings and makes me miss you all at the same time. Did you see I put up pictures of the postboxes? So cool looking.
P.s. I know, the Xena thing is a bit worrying. But it is an awesome cheesy show, and my mate Vasiliy has illegal DVDs of the whole lot that he's often watching in the lounge. Also, let's face it, I enjoy lesbian subtext. I'm only human.
THEY HAVE BEER ON CAMPUS.
alcohol on campus.
God dammit.
ENVY.
And general amazement.
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