As Promised, I am picking up where we left off at the old place. All of our junk was in the moving truck and we were to our new apartment. The drive was about 1800 miles shorter than the last time we moved.
Me in the back seat with boxes and dogs.
The first shot of our new place before we filled it with junk
We have an island in the kitchen. This was a big selling point for us. The old place had the whole kitchen on one wall and it was starting to drive us crazy.
The movers said our couch was the heaviest couch they have ever moved. They took a turn too sharp and almost dropped it on our property manager. She would have been a goner for sure.
Here come the boxes. Se had so damn many boxes. They filled the whole house. It's been more than two weeks and we still haven't even opened all of them
Hard to see, but this was kind of a funny story. Some girl was driving her boyfriend's car and side swiped our mover's truck. It didn't do any damage to the moving truck but it demolished the rear panel of the Xterra she was driving. It happened right outside our window. Nothing can be uneventful with us. I should have warned the movers in advance that something bad would happen to them when they worked with us.
We finally got everything in the front door, so we decided to celebrate.
We walked right across the street to Bridgeport brewery and grabbed some beers and food.
Side note: This brewery is directly across the street from us. When they are making beer and we have the windows open, it makes our house smell like beer. Welcome to Portland.
This is mac and cheese with potato chips crumbled on top. Pretty awesome
We headed out from the brewery and decided to get some ice cream. We passed these two little dogs standing outside a Chinese food place.
Turns out they belong to this guy. I think he was European. Weird guy.
Then we found ice cream. This is my gingersnap cookie ice cream. Probably the best ice cream I have ever had. We just went back to get more a few days ago and they didn't have it! So I tried their horchata cookie ice cream. I'll be damned if it wasn't better. This place makes good ice cream.
Yorkie says he does not like to be wet
I forget what we were doing. We got on the street car for some reason and went into downtown.
Between the little rainstorms that were sweeping through, it was a pretty nice day. So we hung our by the river for a bit. I have to ride by bike down this path to get to work and I curse at it for being so long and wet.
On the way home, we passed Addy's food cart so we got a picture of my sister in front of it. They serve meat and stuff there though, so it's a bit of irony.
We met a sinister upside-down squirrel. I can't be sure of it, but I assume he was up to no good.
Hey there, more drinks? Don't mind if I do. We went to a place called Bartini. They have a great happy hour, all day Sunday. They forgot to bring us our food for a while, so it was all free. This drink closest to me is called an oatmeal cookie. It was the best mixed drink I have ever had. I was convinced there was no alcohol in it, until I had a second one and realized I was wrong.
Two sneaky martinis and a lot of free food later, we made our way over to a dessert place called Papa Hayden. We agreed on a lemon cake and some sort of peanut butter chocolate mouse thing.
They were quickly destroyed. Cake, if you thought we would spare you, you have never met my mom. She taught me how to eat cake. And come on, fruit? I appreciate you trying to put a strawberry on the place, but really? Why would I eat fruit when there is cake?
That was pretty much how we would down the weekend. The next morning, my sister took off and we started unpacking.
This is pretty much what it looks like now. Still some work to go. We'll get there
Last week was Rosh Hashanah and Mirav made made the classic
dishes to celebrate. Happy new year everyone!
That was a long post and a long move. The puppies are tired.
Hopefully I can post some more when we actually do fun stuff, not just move
crap around.
