An Oregonian at Heart?

Aaron and I went to Oregon last week... and it was AWESOME. I really like it up there. I discovered that I can't handle the streets in downtown because they're too crammed and busy, but other than that I felt like I fit in. It's weird to say because I never really admit this aloud, but I think I feel most comfortable with the artsy-hippy crowd that exists in Portland. Not to mention that Powell's - the best book store ever - also exists in Portland, and I can definitely handle that! 3 stories high, one city block large, new and used books on the same shelves... c'mon! An amazing bookstore and constant reading weather (foggy chill), what wouldn't I totally love about being in this city (except for the driving, we already established that).

It should however be noted that I do turn into ultra-nerd in Oregon. We went on this amazing hike (behind waterfalls and all!) and I was totally content taking photos of mushrooms. Uh huh, mushrooms. I intend to post the pictures for my very-large(hardly existent) fan base here soon. Some of them turned out to be pretty cool.

The last day we were in Portland we went to this cute cafe called "Sound Grounds." The coffee was great, they had art on the wall (good art too, not corporate reprints of crappy patterns mixed up and called art), and they sold vynals on the side. Uh... yeah...

The houses there are even cute. I mean it's all that slightly old architecture that looks like it's transitioning out of the victorian style, but is way cute. I'd love to own a house like that. I can picture myself growing old in a house on a cute little, tree-laiden street. That's after I have kids playing under the large oak tree and building forts in the backyard, of course.

Oh Portland of my heart...