Portland Day 2 — Jennah

Jennah — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 04:25:00 +0000

Today we journeyed into Portlandia again, leaving our nice, cozy, comfy trailer in favor of the streets of a city, crowded with ruffians and hobos. We visited the Powell Bookstore again, only this time we came in through the doors knowing that the largest bookstore was in fact located in Toronto (I knew that Canada was better then America). I went on a hunt for my books, then curled up on the top floor with a book for an hour or so. Mother then called and I was forced to leave. I went to meet up with the rest of my tiresome family, only to find that there was no familiar faces. I then wandered around, searching for them, to no avail. After about half an hour, I went back to the Rose Room, and saw that they had been there all along.

After leaving the book store, we went to the bread store and got more heavenly loaves. Before we could eat them, we had to traipse all the way to a playground. My younger, less mature siblings frolicked among the hard equipment. I soon joined them out of boredom, while Jack and mother went to a music shop. About twenty minutes later we boarded the van and picked them up, then headed home. We went to the pool, and saw that there was a shady character hanging around, wearing shorts and a duster with strange leather boot. He curled up in a corner and slammed a bottle of Mountain Dew. We left after about an hour and a half, maybe two hours, because it started to rain. We fetched our towels from the dryer and went back to the trailer. A while later Mother, Ryan, Sylvia, and Annabelle journeyed to Target, and Max and I went to go put the towels in the dryer again. We put them in and started it, only to find that the dryer was in fact a washer! It was too late, because the door locked and the traitorous machine had locked it’s door. Max and I headed sadly back to the trailer.

This is the end of Portland, Day 2.

-Jennah
P.S I could not purchase any pens, because they were all vulgarly priced. I was crying inside.

Portland yo — Jack

Jack — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 18:17:14 +0000

Today my family and I went into Portland, Oregon. We dropped my mother off at the local zoo with the younger siblings and then caught a train into downtown. At first I wasn’t really liking Portland that much because I couldn’t find any nice shops to browse but then we came to some bakery and since bread is my favorite food I went in to see if it was affordable. It turns out that you could buy a decent sized chunk of bread for 75 cents. After the bread we went to the Powell bookstore which just so happened to be the biggest bookstore in the world according to some sibling. When in the store I found a room full of rare books, one of the books it had was a large book full of sketches of sets from the movie Star Wars. I then wondered over across the hall to the music books where I found the sheet music for the album The Wall by Pink Floyd which I bought and hugged all day. After we left the book store, I stumbled upon a zombie march that I tagged along with until they went into a bar. I then continued to walk down the street until I found a male underwear store with live models which was pretty beautiful. I bought myself some kind of thong for $12 because I like underwear. Eventually it was time to meet up with my mother and the rest of the family so we headed towards the bus stop place until we found them. When we were reunited with our other half, Jennah, Mother and I ran off to a makeup store where I tried on a number of lipsticks and face moisteners until leaving time. I had packed a gallon of tea in my backpack and all throughout the day I was drinking from it spontaneously on the curb. At some time we found ourselves outside a blockade of food carts. There were a good number of carts selling food from far off lands. I went to a Greek booth and ordered a gyro which of course I mispronounced, we then went and ate our food in a park and headed towards a bus stop to find our way home.

books – The Blue Van – Overland Travels

Portland Day 2 — Jennah

Portland yo — Jack