The Portland Rose Festival has been going on for the last few weeks, and everyone has been telling us we need to get up and partake in some of the festivities. So, we headed up to Portland Saturday morning.
Our first stop was the Portland Farmer's Market:
This is my lone Portland Farmer's Market shot. See all those tents in the distance? That's maybe 1/3 of the vendors. The PFM is one seriously impressive farmer's market! Not only are there locally grown fruits, veggies, and meats but there are tons of bakeries and vendors selling hot food for breakfast or lunch. It was hard to choose what to eat for lunch with so many choices, including wood fired pizza (yes, there was a little brick oven set up!). I settled on a sandwich from Pine State Biscuits that had bacon, egg, and cheese on a ridiculously yummy biscuit. It was heaven. Since we were going to be in Portland most of the day, we only bought a few things that could survive being in the hot car while we walked around. Seth picked up some strawberries and we bought some fresh bagels (herb and cheese!) and some cinnamon bread. Now, this is no ordinary cinnamon bread. It's like eating a cinnamon bun. So delicious. And it's whole grain bread rolled in oats. So it's sorta healthy, right? That's my story anyways. So, short story long....the PFM is amazing. Next time we'll bring a big cooler so that we can get fresh fish and meats. Yum!
After we had stuffed ourselves at the farmer's market we dropped our goodies off at the car and saw that the Grand Floral Parade was just a couple of blocks away. Seth isn't one for standing still too long, so we caught a few glimpses of the parade and walked a bit and then caught a few more floats.
After checking out the parade we walked down to the river and watched the Dragon Boat Races. They were way more intense than I ever could have imagined! Each team had a big tent set up at the top of the park where they had food for the rowers and all the teams were stretching and hanging out.
There were races with kids rowing when we first got there and when we left they had just moved on to the women's races.
The weather was perfect this weekend! There were great views of Mount Hood and Mount Saint Helens from the highway, but I didn't snap any photos.
I don't have any knitting to show off, but I've been buzzing right along on my Mom's sweater and I'll be taking a class with Jared Flood this weekend at Knit-Purl in Portland. I'm also headed to the Black Sheep Gathering on Friday, which is a local sheep and wool festival. I'm sure I'll have lots of goodies to show off after that!
Love,
liz
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