Portland Part II

At last, here is the long awaited continuation to our Portland weekender that I hinted at way back when.  Sometimes, life puts things on hold.  This time, the routine was put on hold by a two week long trip back to Wisconsin to say goodbye to my Grandma Schoeneck.  It was wonderful to be back home for an extended period of time visiting my family and friends. But it's also great to be back home in Seattle and back to the norm...which includes regular blog posts! So, can you guess what the highlight of our last day in Portland was???

ROLLER SKATING!!! Not just any roller skating, either. Roller skating around a gigantic suspended Wurlitzer pipe  organ. With our wonderful friend Rachel. And there was a photo booth.  This place was fantastically old timely from the roller skates themselves to the general decor.  There were even some wonderfully graceful older gentleman showing off what had to be the moves of their youth in the middle of the floor.  And let's just talk about that Wurlitzer for a minute. The organist sat in a little booth on the outside of the rink and he played music almost the whole time we were there.  It created the perfect ambiance. 

Rachel and I were roommates in college, but haven't lived very close enough to each other since graduating. In fact, we were pretty much an entire continent away when she moved to Pennsylvania and I moved to Washington. Now, she recently moved to the Pacific Northwest, too, and we can finally hang out on a semi-regular basis again! Yahooooo!