I almost forgot about Powell's. It is as big as they say it is. We didn't even come close to browsing around. We did get 4 children's books and only spent about 25 bucks. Not bad, I say.
This morning we ate at Milo's City Cafe, which was pretty much lame. We went over to Alberta St. and went to a cool baby boutique called Grasshopper and picked up some modern blocks I've had my eye on. We took a bus that went the slow way to the MAX so we could go to the southeast part of the city again. Portland pretty much turns into Richfield past 50th Ave. That explains why it feels much smaller than Minneapolis even though it actually has about 150,000 more residents. Plus Minneapolis has St. Paul right next to it. It seems like Minneapolis is one of the few cities in the US that didn't annex half of it's suburbs in the 1960s.
Anyway we walked down Hawthorne, which was a very cool street. It was more gentrified than Hennepin, but more "street" than Grand in St. Paul. We ate at the Barley Mill Pub, another McMenamin's enterprise. The first one, I believe. I had a yummy salad. And beer. Portland is great for beer. Not for coffee though. We stopped at Stumptown for coffee a bit later. My coffee was super watery, Bethany's chai was too spicy. Stumptown is apparantly the gold standard here. We walked down Belmont, stopped to browse at Polliwog, another baby boutique we liked. Looked in the window at Paradox. We might stop there for vegetarian/vegan breakfast.
Later that evening we ate yuppie thai food at Typhoon, it was fine, but not spectacular. From there it was Ground Kontrol, my new favorite thing about life. I taught Bethany how to play Frogger and Donkey Kong. We've got to make up for lost time with her.
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