Portland Ambassador
Yesterday was a day of hosting visitors. I spent the first half of the day tagging along with Shanon and family as we all took our friend Sharon around to see the sights of PDX. First stop Voodoo, then a quick stop at Multnomah Falls, and a visit to Ikea, which I think is Shanon's favorite place to take visitors in the city. We all kind of fell asleep in the car on the way back home, so we scrapped the last part of our plans in favor of naptimes instead, but I think we're going to try later this week to go see the lights at the zoo.
After a little R&R at home, I met up with a few bridge friends for dinner and kitchen bridge. An acquaintance from Charlottesville contacted me a while ago mentioning that he's thinking of relocating to Portland, and wanted advice on the bridge scene and the general way of life here. I don't know him well, but I'm always happy to host a visitor, so I set him up with several bridge games, a home bridge party at Linda's (tonight, yay!), a Blazer game, and possibly some hiking and yoga, too. He was part of our group last night, and I think so far we've shown him some good reasons to move here. I'm not sure if he ultimately will or not, but I love having visitors anyway. And it would be lovely to add to the Charlottesville mafia that I'm building here in Portland. We've got Shanon, Kelly, possibly Rob...
Today is full of more of the same. Indian food for lunch with Shanon, Sharon, Kelly, and Jack, a little time for digestion, then meeting my trainer at the gym, followed by transitting out to Chris' office from which we'll carpool to Linda's for a bridge/dinner party. Linda is freaking awesome. She's always so willing to host, and she doesn't just have people over, she puts together a TO DO. So when I mentioned to her that Rob was coming to visit and check out the bridge scene, she got twelve of the best and friendliest local bridge players lined up for an evening of cards at her house, and she's going to cook for everybody, and she won't let me bring or make anything. I need to come up with a good hostess gift or something. She also hosted my 28th birthday party when she found out that I didn't have any plans that year.
Anyway I'm looking forward to today's events...with the exception of the pain Ertan will deliver in my training session, but I know even that is good for me, so it's all good. Sometime this week, I'm going to get a massage....
After a little R&R at home, I met up with a few bridge friends for dinner and kitchen bridge. An acquaintance from Charlottesville contacted me a while ago mentioning that he's thinking of relocating to Portland, and wanted advice on the bridge scene and the general way of life here. I don't know him well, but I'm always happy to host a visitor, so I set him up with several bridge games, a home bridge party at Linda's (tonight, yay!), a Blazer game, and possibly some hiking and yoga, too. He was part of our group last night, and I think so far we've shown him some good reasons to move here. I'm not sure if he ultimately will or not, but I love having visitors anyway. And it would be lovely to add to the Charlottesville mafia that I'm building here in Portland. We've got Shanon, Kelly, possibly Rob...
Today is full of more of the same. Indian food for lunch with Shanon, Sharon, Kelly, and Jack, a little time for digestion, then meeting my trainer at the gym, followed by transitting out to Chris' office from which we'll carpool to Linda's for a bridge/dinner party. Linda is freaking awesome. She's always so willing to host, and she doesn't just have people over, she puts together a TO DO. So when I mentioned to her that Rob was coming to visit and check out the bridge scene, she got twelve of the best and friendliest local bridge players lined up for an evening of cards at her house, and she's going to cook for everybody, and she won't let me bring or make anything. I need to come up with a good hostess gift or something. She also hosted my 28th birthday party when she found out that I didn't have any plans that year.
Anyway I'm looking forward to today's events...with the exception of the pain Ertan will deliver in my training session, but I know even that is good for me, so it's all good. Sometime this week, I'm going to get a massage....