we survived our first day of primary.

daniel and I complained several times to each other about how boring our ward at church was.  a word to the wise . . . be careful what you wish for.

Portlandia

Well we finally got around to exploring Portland!  I've been wanting to for weeks and we never got around to it with all the craziness, and the next few weekends we'll be moving so this weekend was perfect.  We started off at the rose garden, which was absolutely beautiful! The roses in my backyard look nothing like these beauties, they had them in every color you can think of.  There were at least 6 weddings we saw there I think, it was a little difficult to get pictures without other people in them but such a pretty place.  Then we tried to go to a cute little Italian restaurant, but they weren't open yet so we walked around a bit, found some random shops and happened to end up in one of the places on my list, Powell's city of books, the largest new and used bookstore in the world!  It was quite overwhelming but fun to walk through, and I think we'll definitely be there again sometime.  We ended up eating at Henry's 12th st Tavern, which we just thought looked yummy but found out it was the old Henry Weinhard brewery - I sent my bro a pic of my delicious root beer to make him jealous.  We headed to Salt n Straw for some homemade ice cream but not before picking up some cupcakes at a random cupcake shop we happened to park in front of (nothing special) and some voodoo doughnuts (so good i actually considered giving up cupcakes for these).  After lots of driving around, we headed to Cedar Crest Park (which was supposedly a good makeout spot - LIES).  But apparently its one of the (maybe the) highest spots in portland, a pretty view but not as great as I was expecting.  Might have been because it was hazy too.  It was a fun day getting to see a little bit more of Portland (other than the airport and ikea that I see everyday).  We did come to an understanding of the bumper stickers "Keep Portland weird."  Portland really is strange.  Philly definitely is a better fit for our normalness, but we had fun exploring!

Such beautiful roses!

Ginormous plant

For a second I thought I was in Philadelphia . . . 

Ginormous bookstore!

Salted caramel and chocolate with gooey brownies . . . yum

We definitely did not leave the city empty handed. 

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