A very good day with Portland adventures

We woke up bright and early (yuck) today to get to a 7's tournament in Portland.  We were out the door at 7:30.  To be more precise, it was about 20 minutes past Portland.  Andy had to put the jerseys in the dryer so we left a little later than we had wanted.  Oh well. "Rugby time"

We drove through rain the whole way down and I was a bit nervous.  We pulled up and it was only sprinkling a bit, but Sawyer got to put his rain jacket and boots (sirens colors) on and take advantage of the puddles at the pitch.  It was good timing because he started to get cranky about 5 minutes before and was saying "ALL DONE!" trying to get out of his seat. The rain stopped soon after and held out the whole time- yay!

We didn't do so great, but better than last tourney.  I don't know why our 7's sides are so bad when we dominate in 15's.  I don't think I have any major bruises this time, but I jammed my finger.  I did 2 things I've always wanted to though 1. Get tackled, post the ball, then pick my own ball up and run before any ruck forms 2. Held up a big girl in the try zone so they didn't score (she was going down to post the ball and I rolled her back on top of me). So cool!  Sawyer was a hit as usual and everyone wanted to play with him the whole time.

Me and Leslie

We were out by 1:30 and headed to Portland.  I wanted to try the "Waffle Window" a friend of ours has talked about.  Have you been to Portland?  It is weird. The people are weird.  It is kind of awesome.  Everything is "green" and they even have bike lanes.  If you are still curious, watch the TV show "Portlandia" with Fred Armesan.  Accurate.  We found a parking spot in the middle of a popular street and headed to get some waffles.  We ordered two of "the whole farms" (Pepper bacon, mushroom, spinach, roasted pepper, tomato and marinated chevre according to the website) ... a "razzle dazzle" (fresh raspberries with whip and lemon glaze), and a blueberry cheesecake.  To drink Andy had a green tea lemonade, and I had a basil blackberry lemonade which sounds weird but was AHHMAZING.  

Sawyer stole a bite while Andy went to the bathroom hehe

 It started to rain pretty hard while we were there, but we were nice and dry under the tent.

Andy was a gentleman as usual and brought the car around so we wouldn't have to walk in it and we took a picture.

I wanted to maybe hit up the farmers market which is pretty great downtown, but the rain, my sore foot, and full stomach changed my mind.  Shopping around food never sounds as awesome when you are full.  We instead headed over the river to Vancouver.  Andy's grandma had recently broken a few bones when she tripped and was staying in a nursing facility to heal.  They are from Utah but recently bought another house in Vancouver, and were up visiting when she got hurt.  Sawyer wasn't thrilled to be stuck in the little room and ran off escaping quite a few times.  We had a good visit with grandma and grandpa Monson though, and they get a hoot out of Sawyer.  He had fun pushing the walker around.

The drive home was a little scary at times because of the rain that was coming down hard.  We managed to see a double rainbow though...actually, the bottom rainbow was a double rainbow, and the one above it was single, so we saw 3!  Hard to tell in the phone camera though.

Sawyer slept half the way back, and the other half he did silly things like rip apart the paper in the dvd case, and eat his shoes.

We got back at like 6:30 and went to drop Janelle (our babysitter's) money off at their new house.  IT IS SO CLOSE!  I am SOOOO excited, I am saving like 30 minutes every morning because she moved like 3 stoplights away (which is on my way to work) instead of downtown and they are getting a nice house so he can play in the fenced yard and the neighborhood playground instead of just their apartment! YAY!

We got back and Sawyer ran up and down the street as usual.  Then we made some of the most delicious steak from Tacoma Boys (bistro steak).  MMMMMMMmmmmmm.  Such a good day!!!