Happy Friday everyone!  We greet you from our 88 degree apartment.  So, apparently Portland doesn't believe in air conditioning in apts here (go figure, saving energy, saving lives), so here we sit windows open in 95 degree weather.  Think it may be unusual for it to be so sunny and hot here-we only thought we were leaving Arkansas.  No fear though, we have new fans that are gracing us with good air flow and Adel is resting well...I know you were worried.

Today Dustin and I took on the city of Portland's road systems to find a Target and finally hit the NE side of town.  We heard of an all vegan restaurant called Nutshell and were so excited, only to find it shut down.  : (  Then we decided to hit up an all vegan bar called Bye and Bye, but alas, it didn't open until 2pm.  By this point we were open for anything so we settled on the Black Cat Cafe and boy were we surprised.  We had vegan panini sandwiches named after Oklahoma and Missouri.  Very delish.  

Tonight I believe we will try out a new restaurant and maybe hit Someday Lounge-a personal fav.  Unfortunately we found out the New Pornographers were playing tonight, but it was already sold out....so we'll have to find some other kind of trouble to get into.  Andrew Bird and the Decemberists play tomorrow night, so we may try to make an appearance.  People just love a good southern accent up here, and sometimes it gets you in for free!