Greetings from Portland. We arrived here Tuesday to look for a place to live.
On the plane I got lots of knitting done. One project is secret at the moment, so no pics. But here's a picture of the Chevron Scarf I am working on in Rio de Plata sock yarn. I feel sort of meh about the color combo.



We started driving around and checking things out on Wednesday. We wanted to find something relatively close to my work but not too far from the center of Portland. We looked and looked and looked but didn't feel so awesome about any of the places we saw. Come Wednesday night, we were feeling a bit low about the whole thing. So we went drinking. Here we are at an unidentified bar downtown. Yay for Portland beer!




On Thursday--ta-da!--we found an ad on Craigslist for a cute house with a rad kitchen. We called and went and looked at it. And just like that, we have a house! Hooray! Stupid me, I didn't take any pictures, but I will post some when we move in. Did I mention that the kitchen rocks??

Having accomplished our goal, we went out last night to the Tonic Lounge and saw Girl in a Coma, which is a pretty awesome girl band with some sick stage presence.

Today, we drove out to Multnomah Falls, the second highest waterfalls in North America--620 feet! It was really beautiful, if a bit crowded.



(Get a load of that hair because it is going to be gone come Monday.)

So. It has been a fun and productive trip. We are leaving early tomorrow morning, and then begins the mad dash to get packed and sell all of our furniture before the marathon drive. Phew. I think I will take a preemptive nap.