Sizzle
It�s super hot today. I broke a sweat just making a salad for dinner (even using the toaster oven was too much cooking!!). It�s 8pm and it just became cooler outside than in so I opened up all the windows and turned on our tiny fan to try to move some air through the apartment. We sat in the dark all afternoon, reading and trying not to think too hard for fear of generating heat.
We spent last night in Portland, as a belated anniversary getaway. We had our 12-year-old nephew, TG, with us on our actual day (July 10th) and, though he was a wonderful houseguest, three’s a crowd on one’s anniversary. He didn’t even want a piece of the cheesecake that we were eating to celebrate, opting instead for the last of the ice cream, his reward for eating 3 tiny pieces of vegetable matter with his dinner. He promised to like vegetables when he�s a grown-up, but I figure those 6 years till he�s 18 will go by quick and he�d better start working on liking the goodies now.
So, anyway. We drove up to Portland yesterday and discovered that our motel was a bit farther from the city center than we�d thought. But it turned out fine, because we walked across the Willamette and checked out the sights (whew, the traffic! I�m glad we don�t live there)
and then on to downtown. We went to Powell�s bookstore, which is amazing � we didn�t explore the half of it. Next was dinner at PF Chang�s (score!) and a 7:45 showing of the newest installment of Pirates of the Caribbean. It was entertaining but we didn�t like the occult undercurrents and the plot was darn confusing. The first one was better. Maybe they�ll wrap it up during Round Three � apparently on its way, since Dead Man�s Chest ended in a distinctly un-wrapped-up manner. Even though it was 2-and-a-half hours long.
When we got out of the theater it was just as hot at 10:30 as it had been in late afternoon. Whew!
This morning we had breakfast at Doug Fir, a very hip establishment that was log-cabin-meets-60�s-modern. We were across the restaurant from a log wall with a sleek, space-age shaped window cut out of it. It was pretty cool. And the food was yummy! Portland has good food. I like that.
Postscript, Sunday July 23rd : it got up to 105 today. Hope we get some relief tomorrow!!!
i thought “Pirates 2” was pretty good… i was able to get past the occult undercurrents due to the fact that everyone who participated in the occult was very obviously doomed to a lifetime of misery/hell on earth, and there was one person (that i recall) who had the choice to live cursed or die, and chose death instead.
also, the costumes and special effects were amazing…
good thoughts, christie. I think I had such a hard time following all the plot twists that I didn’t think very deeply about the movie. I felt like it jumped around so much, from the cannibals to the sea-monster-men (who I enjoyed much more than the living skeletons from #1) to the swamp lady to the ship where Elizabeth was, to the ship where Jack was, to the ship where Will was with Davy Jones… my head was spinning. Plus people kept showing up from the first movie and I didn’t remember exactly who they were. My favorite one of those was the skinny pirate with the fake eye. He kept adding all these intellectual/spiritual/psychological comments to everything. funny, funny. 🙂