Portland, Oregon

Mike's best friend Joel recently married the love of his life, Jaime, in the Portland, OR temple and guess who got to take a mini-weekend vacation? We did. Well, it was actually in March but that's besides the point. I just found this picture on Mike's phone last night and it brought back wonderful memories of walking through the streets of the city hand-in-hand, visiting Powell's Books, the largest independently owned book store in the nation (I could have lived there...), and having dinner at the top of a skyscraper and wondering if the very tall gentleman whose head almost touched the ceiling was a basketball player for Portland. Mike got a pipe and I actually had time in the morning to make myself look presentable. We shopped without sales tax and watched movies late into the night that had nothing to do with animation or Disney. We watched an independent film and had amazing pizza with Mike's other best friend Skyler and his beautiful wife Kirsten. The wedding, the people we were with, and the whole trip were just...perfect.