garvie and i hit the road friday morning and before you knew it we were in portland...actually nope, we weren't there that quickly as we did a little shopping along the way and then had to boot it to get to portland in time for them to not give our room away at the awesome boutique hotel - the jupiter. um... nope. not so fabulous. not really. truth is our trip, kinda tripped along at a weird pace initially and it all started with the jupiter hotel. more like stupider than jupiter. i knew it was a hipster hotel but nothing prepared us for the skit like characters at the jupiter hotel. we were the geezers. hitting on their turf. more beards than a main and fraser combined. and our room in the quiet section of the hotel wasn't. hipsters, little dogs and guys in toques and beards. nice. we ran into nick from destroyer there as they were playing there that night and he said the jupiter wasn't the place to stay. ever.
though i will say this - the restaurant at the jupiter - the doug fir - makes some great food and while dinner can be a test as it's very noisy, the breakfast vibe was much more sedate and worthwhile.
now we know.
we changed hotels and moved over to the moderna downtown...and really so. night and day between it and the stupider. like a real grown-up kinda hotel. because we're grown-up i guess. we went for a grown up mexican joint on belmont that's really great - i forget the name but will get that to anyone who cares to know...good food, nice service...all good.
sleeping in a decent hotel room with a great set of curtains and bed made a huge difference.
we went for a nice walk to stumptown for a coffee, walked around afterwards doing some shopping downtown and then headed off to get some lunch before making our way back to the 'couve.
all in all a nice weekend with a few bumps...(most caused by me and my lack of planning on the trailer front and my skitterness around that - i know about google map and should have used it...next time...) got a few new pairs of shoes, ailsa got some great deals on clothes for her and some for fiona as well, and we ate well but not a ton - which was about right i thought.
have a great tuesday.
g. xo
ailsa has a few pics on her camera but for now a couple shots...
the washroom door at the very hip doug fir lounge.
ailsa's enchiladas
my stuff relleno thingy ..
nick from destroyer tells us what's what...
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