Meat market

Zieak and i are in Portland, Oregon while i attend a gift show with one of my coworkers. He gets to be the tag-along this time. Rory moved down here last april, and my father and his wife live in southern oregon, so we had plenty of distractions.
Saturday my dad, donna, zieak and i visited the japanese gardens. It was quite serene, and absolutely eye-pleasing. We had talked about going to the zoo instead, so i'm glad we went with the garden - there were no screaming children.

Portland seems like a cool town, but we only had four nights to form an opinion. Rory took us out on the town saturday night, and boy, did i form a strong opinion. Lets just say i came up with a NOT To Do list for the newly-of-drinking-age female population of portland. (*this is my opinion only - not to be taken seriously)

- Most of the girls looked like they had spent at least two hours putting on layer after layer of makeup and coat after coat of hairspray. Less is more girls.

- Muffintops were abound.

- If you're going to wear black tights with a pink miniskirt, go right ahead. You'll probably look really cute. Just don't let the top of the tights protrude above the waist of the skirt. Not cute.

- If you MUST make out with your best friend, don't bother rushing into an out of order bathroom stall made of see-through material. I understand not wanting to do it on the dancefloor in front of a crowd of drooling jocks, but you're not invisible in that stall, and you're just tracking around more of the disgusting toilet overflow.

- When there is a shy girl handing out paper towels and keeping the ladies room in an acceptable condition (*different bar) don't ignore her and exclaim "oh my GOD, all this stuff is FREE to use?" and proceed to stink up the small space and leave without tipping.

Am i just getting grumpy in my old-age? I did manage to have a lot of fun that night, ending up at a salsa bar where zieak and i received brief drunk salsa lessons from rory's brother and his girlfriend. I wish we had more than four nights, there is so much more to see and do.