Here are my top 3 attractions that I have visited for the FIRST time this summer:

1. The Saturday Market

I used to think the Saturday Market was just a bunch of hippies trying to take your money by selling anything and everything.  Boy, was I wrong!  Every Saturday and Sunday you can browse through a diverse crowd of people and find beautiful mosaics, pottery, crafts, jewelry, paintings and much more all made by local artisans.  On top of that, there is an international food court and live music!

2.  The Portland Spirit

I was lucky enough to experience this magnificent boat last week while on a lunch cruise.  I enjoyed a delicious buffet, a live band, drinks, a very friendly staff, and the not-too-hot summer sun on the top deck.  We loaded onto the boat on the waterfront downtown, and it took us on a 2 hour cruise going south on the Willamette River!

3. The OMNIMAX

The OMNImax at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry is an amazing venue, unlike anything else I’ve ever experienced.  It is a giant dome screen with digital surround sound that has the ability to bring you into a different world.  I recently saw “Hubble,” which depicts a journey through space and the endless galaxies through the eye of the Hubble Space Telescope.  It is unreal what is out there beyond our happy planet Earth, and you need to experience this!  (It’s also a plus that Leonardo DiCaprio’s voice is narrating you through space!)

Regardless, this book is not so much inspiring me, but rather allowing me to live vicariously through this woman’s seemingly perfect adventure.  Maybe the inspiration will spring up like daisies when she goes to India, but page sixty-eight still has Elizabeth stuck in pleasure-filled Italy with nothing to do but eat everything in sight.  Anyways, my goal is to finish it before the movie comes out…we’ll see how this goes! Plus it’s Charlie’s movie for the month of August for Charlie’s Movie Night Hosted By Charlie Girl! Courtesy of Regal Cinemas.

I read the Sideways Stories book to Charlie when he was younger and he loved how wacky, strange and funny they were. The performance was great and the kids played the characters just how I remembered them! It did get a little scary at parts but those parts didn’t last too long. My favorite character was definitely Mrs. J! She reminded me of Sierra, a woman that works at the station. The other characters were so funny. The redhead with the piggy tails that the boy wants to….well I can’t spoil the story!

Overall, a great play, storyline and I had a wonderful time. You should definitely check it out and tickets start at only $13! That’s cheaper than a Friday night movie! Plus, after the show is over all of the actors and actresses go to the lobby and you can get their autograph while they’re still in costume.

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Charlie and his new girlfriend, or “roommate” at the time, came to my house for dinner one night. His girlfriend made delicious liver and onions but there were some left overs so she left her nice glass dish at my house. I promptly returned it to their home the next time I visited. Charlie kept calling me and leaving me the most horrid voice mails saying I needed to return the glass dish and that I couldn’t steal from his “roommate” I didn’t call him back. Then he called me again telling me that it was his “roommate’s” grandmother’s dish and that she really really needs it back. I called Charlie back and asked him if she was his girlfriend and he denied it. Hear that girlfriend?!? He denied it! Well I proceeded to inform Charlie that the dish is in his “roommate’s” bed. That’s when he told me they had just started dating.

I’m watching you Charlie!

Is it bad that this picture still makes my mouth water?!?