Michael’s conference didn’t start until 11:00 so the four of us went to breakfast. We decided against trying Junior’s again because it was such a fail. Today we would go to Hungry Tiger Too. I’ve been a few times and it’s never too busy. We got there a bit early so I went next door to the coffee shop and got an Earl Grey. While we were waiting for them to open we saw a message from a friend saying her flight was cancelled so she would not be making it to a talk she was scheduled for. Andrew asked her if she would like to go to lunch since her plans were cancelled and she said that would be great. We were going to meet her at 13:00 so this was going to be interesting. We’d still be stuffed from our breakfast.
Back at the restaurant we ordered our food and then waited and waited. Finally the food started showing up! Everyone but Michael got their plate. She said his would be right out but he didn’t get his food until we were just about done with ours. It was nearly 11:00 and we had to get him to the convention center so he ate as fast as he could and off we went. I have the worst luck with breakfast and guests!
We successfully dropped him off and then went to Next Adventure to look for a coat for Andrew. He has a fairly specific one in mind and we didn’t find anything close there. We then drove to The Haberdashery to see if they had anything but no luck there either.
It was already time to head to lunch and the three of us were not hungry at all. It didn’t matter because we really just wanted to spend some time with our friend since she had just moved to Portland. She wanted to meet at Queen of Sheba Ethiopian. We hadn’t been there before so we were interested in seeing how their food compared. We ordered the vegan platter and I’d have to say it was the best Ethiopian we’ve had in Portland so far. The food was flavorful and actually spicy for once. I barely ate anything because I was so full but we had a great visit.
We stopped at the store on our way home so we could get a few things we needed for a birthday party potluck. Jayde, our 12 year-old, was tasked with making the cake. Jayde loves to bake so she was very excited to do this. The party was for Alice’s sister so Alice had purchased all of the cake decorations. The theme was flamingos and the color pink. Jayde had been looking at the decorations for a few days so had formulated an idea of how she wanted the cake to look. We left her to it and wow she did an amazing job!
We had a nice time at the party potluck. Jason had a nice fire going in his fire pit and lots of our neighbors were there. It was a great evening.
Today I learned what the front of our house originally looked like when it was built in 1909.