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Day in the City


So...I went into Portland today with my roomie/bestie. We saw this little park in the middle of the city and they had these cool little elephant statues and I just had to take a photo. 

Aren't they cool? 


This was our second/final stop of the day. Seriously, these donuts may not look so good, but believe me, they are so worth the 10 minute wait. Ask for a Voodoo Dozen. :-)

And the crowning moment of the whole trip into the city...


well...I guess you can't really tell, but we spent the most of our time in Powell's City of Books. This is a photo out of the 3rd floor window of the Pearl section - photography/coffee/art room.

Powell's City of Books is seriously the biggest bookstore I have ever seen in my whole life. F O U R floors of 12 foot tall bookshelves on every subject you could possibly think of. It was seriously heaven on earth for me. I could have spent all day in there. 

Anyway...

spring is here. kind of. The weather here has been bi-polar. Sunny for five minutes. Rain for 10 minutes that turned into hail which turned into snow. Seriously so tired of this weather. I really can't wait for sunshine and warm weather to be here. I can't wait to be able to go to the beach this summer!


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