When I came back from my Portland delicious restaurant orgy, I was faced with my most terrifying week of the season during which I had to learn to drive a bus AND learn to be a lifeguard.  Gah!  this picture is intended to express my dominant emotions upon facing the school bus on the first day of driving.  Why do they make them so large???

March 27th

Portland looked and smelled like spring all over the place, which I insisted on discussing with every person I met.  I have about a thousand more pictures like this on my camera...

March 26th

Tried out the hip new ice-cream shop on Alberta to finish my week-long food tour of Portland.  This is my free sample of black cherry and bone marrow ice cream...

which while it did not taste as much like blood as I expected, I passed on in favor of strawberry/balsamic/black pepper and some kind of chocolatey toffey flavor

photos following our discussion of how it's impossible not to look like a goober while eating an ice cream cone...

March 24th

hat! finished! 

March 23rd

 yummmm.  This is how my mornings used to start: 

Just like my tea-garden stampcard, this punch card is getting punched highly infrequently.  It's going to take me all year+ to make it around that horseshoe

March 22nd

I feel like all that I do when I come home is eat lots of food, which is kind of tragic but I don't even care because this ish was delicious.

March 21st

ZOMG it snowed while I was in Portland!!!1! school was canceled! roads were a tiny bit hard to navigate on the taller hills! it was pandemonium!   This was pretty strange for me as this snow was not preceeded by breaking local news reports about how there might be snow and what lots of Portland citizens thought about how there might be snow and what might happen if there was actually snow

I realize this is a terrible snow picture but I wasn't prepared, because of the lack of local news build-up

Arboretum Andy Goldsworthy style snow art

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