Portland Tomato Battle!
La Tomatina is the week long food fight festival in Bunol, Spain. Every year on the last Wednesday of August, the small town of Bunol, with a meager population of 9,000, graciously welcomes 20-40k people into their town for the largest tomato fight ever! Catapulting tomatoes create chaos and pandemonium for exactly one hour. At that point the water cannons sound indicating a cease in the food flinging. Sounds like a rip-roaring, tomato-tossing, glorious-good time, if you could make it to Spain! Well don’t shed a tomato tear any longer my friend because the Tomato Battle is making...
Read MoreSea Dogs Love The Blues
The English had John Hawkins, Sir Francis Drake and Walter Raleigh. Portland has Finger and 10 or so, lesser well-known, Partial Pirates. Blimey! Portland has “Partial Pirates?” Ok, as I read the article it didn’t really have the same allure and romanticism that Johnny Depp brings to mind but I am a girl who is fascinated by pirates, so I’m intrigued. Finger may have the tendencies to be a carouser, he is a pirate after all, but many boat owners who moor along the Willamette also state he is a stand up guy and the first to step up and help out anyone in need. The...
Read MoreA Night At The Heathman Hotel a la Fifty Shades of Grey
50 Shades of Grey, the hottest thing out in mommy-world since the magic eraser hit the shelves at Target! Even my mother texted me to ask if I had heard about these books. I reluctantly asked if she knew what they were about and when she replied with an enthusiastic Yes!, I ended the conversation. Then she asked if she could borrow my books! Yes I have them, and yes I read them- all three. I read the first book in Cabo. I kept rereading the pages not because of the crazy, pretzel twisting, eye-rolling, lip-biting, tie-her-up like he’s a rodeo cowboy and she’s the calf...
Read MoreThe Porcelain Diaries
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