The big day is finally here.
I came across several reviews for Tasty n Sons, a popular eatery in Portland. So, the day began with a trip down into Portland. The city is beautiful. It's much more like Los Angeles in the sense that it's a major city and a diverse population. The bridges and highways are amazing. There is an unbelievable two-story highway that connects over the city. In our drive, we felt like we were floating over some of these buildings, including the Rose Garden.
Tasty n Sons was a great little spot with fabulous food. I ordered the Monk's Carolina Cheesesteak and Mary ordered the Glazed Yams. I can't even begin to describe the taste, but the cheesesteak was full of grease, which is how you know you're eating a real cheesesteak sandwich. We also ordered the Chocolate Potato Doughnuts, which were so, so good. The best part of lunch was seeing the check; no sales tax! This was our first time seeing a receipt with no sales tax, so that was quite exciting. There were several shops on the street, including the official store for Lark Press. We bought several cards and gifts that are unique to Oregon from there. The city feels so artistic, inspired, and rich with inspiration.
The next step of the day was Powell's City of Books, which is the largest new and used bookstore in the world. It's a place to get lost in and there's no way that a day was enough. We immediately took a trip to the Film section, where we browsed around and explored. In front of the bookstore, as we were leaving, there were three street performers known as The Homeless People. They're trying to raise enough money to get back to California. Their music was unbelievable. I really wish they were selling CDs. I recorded one of their songs and we ended up taking a picture with them. We explored Portland from there on, stopping by random stores, including the Monticello Antique Marketplace, which felt like was in some obscure neighborhood away from the city.
We came back to our hotel afterward because Amorosa was screening at 7:30pm at the Space. The screening was great with a small and intimate crowd. There were two other filmmakers present with their films. The host of the evening moderated a small Q&A afterward and we had a chance to speak to her when the evening was over. The woman is formerly from California and she is now a real estate agent in Vancouver. We told her we would love to live here and she joked that she would find us a place.
We left the Space around 9:30pm to meet up with Jessica, one of the volunteers for the film festival who had invited us for drinks yesterday. Jessica and her cousin, Rachel, planned a pub crawl for this film festival, which takes people from pub to pub for drinks throughout the evening. We met up with them at Top Shelf, but they were on their way out to Dublin Down. So, we headed to Dublin Down and had a few drinks. We ended up chatting with Jessica, Rachel and another filmmaker who was in town from Boston. The evening went extremely well and it was really fun to be out in an unfamiliar town with such nice people. Jessica and Rachel were convincing us to move to Vancouver and said we would fit in perfectly.
That's something we are seriously considering.
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