{"id":21913,"date":"2015-01-25T12:22:07","date_gmt":"2015-01-25T20:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mayanrocks.com\/?p=21913"},"modified":"2015-01-25T12:22:07","modified_gmt":"2015-01-25T20:22:07","slug":"weekend-getaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/?p=21913","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Getaway."},"content":{"rendered":"

Six of us were supposed to vacation in Portland, but new jobs, broken water heaters, half marathons and trips to Japan got in the way. Anthony and I obviously have nothing else going on in our lives, so the two of us spent our birthday weekend traveling the pacific northwest without those clowns!<\/p>\n

One thing I love about Portland (and pretty much any other city besides LA) is the public transit system. You can get anywhere by light rail, street car, train or bus! The light rail took us straight from the airport to our hotel downtown for $2.50 (I’ve paid nearly $40 for a cab ride to LAX, and I only live 5 miles away!). What I also love about Portland is the food. OMG, the food. They are known for their food trucks, and our hotel was a couple blocks away from a group of like 20 or so of them at Alder Food Carts<\/a>. I’ve been wanting to eat at Nong’s<\/a> ever since I saw her on Chopped<\/a>, and it was the first of many good meals we had that weekend.<\/p>\n

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Friday was Anthony’s birthday, and he wanted to go to McMenamins Kennedy School<\/a> for drinks. It used to be an elementary school, but they converted it into a hotel\/brewery. We had drinks in the boiler room, and I got sloppy hoping Jordan Catalano would show up to no avail.<\/p>\n

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Our friend Mark lives in Portland, and we met up with him for some late night eats at Biwa<\/a>. He took us to some hipster bar called Bar Bar<\/a> afterwards where we met some of his designer friends. Apparently, there’s a lot of job opportunities up there! Something to consider while I’m sitting in LA traffic…<\/p>\n

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Saturday was for snoozing. We slept in and hit up the farmer’s market<\/a> around noon. When we couldn’t find the Pine State Biscuits<\/a> booth, we decided to have lunch at Lardo<\/a>, but not before having some pre-meal crepes at C’est Si Bon<\/a>. The crepes were a mistake. And so were the donuts that followed at Blue Star<\/a>. We somehow rolled ourselves back to the hotel and were in a food coma for the rest of the rainy afternoon. Everyone in Portland was watching the Seahawks playoff game, and we slept through half of it.<\/p>\n

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When we woke up, Anthony left to work out at the hotel gym, and I ventured out on my own to see the Portland Stag Sign<\/a> without telling him. It’s no secret that I get lost easily, so he decided early on that he would navigate and I was to stay at his 8 o’clock at all times. I tried to take the bus by myself, got off at the wrong stop and found myself in BUMSVILLE. I eventually found my way back to the hotel, but not before Anthony returned from the gym. He was just coming to terms with the idea that I had been abducted when I walked through the door with a bag of hot cheetos and this photo. He was not amused.<\/p>\n

\"portland<\/p>\n

I passed by Voodoo Doughnut<\/a> on my way back. This bum in front threw his half eaten donut on the ground and started following me! I barely escaped with my life.<\/p>\n

\"voodoo<\/p>\n

We had drinks at Whiskey Soda Lounge<\/a> while we waited for our table at Pok Pok<\/a> that night. FYI if you’re only going to Pok Pok for their famous wings, you can skip the wait and get them at Whiskey Soda Lounge instead. Or if Portland is too far, you can come visit me when they open a Pok Pok LA<\/a> this spring \ud83d\ude09 It definitely was everything the internet promised it would be.<\/p>\n

\"whiskey<\/p>\n

Sunday was probably my favorite day, and we didn’t even spend it in Portland! We took an impromptu trip to Seattle and did every touristy thing we could fit into five hours. We ate clam chowder at Pike Place Chowder<\/a> (and pre-meal empanadas at El Mercado Latino<\/a>), dodged fish at Pike Place Fish Market<\/a>, visited the first Starbucks<\/a>, tested our gag reflex at the Gum Wall<\/a> in Post Alley, went to the top of the Space Needle<\/a>, and rode the Great Wheel<\/a>. And this is where I found out this foolio is afraid of heights. The proof is in the video.<\/p>\n

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After spending six hours on the train that day, I showered back at the hotel before we met up with Mark and his friends for drinks at Dig a Pony<\/a>. If I knew we were going to end up at a strip club<\/a> later that night, I would have waited to shower afterwards! Ha. Apparently, Portland is the strip club capital of America, and no trip is complete without visiting one. Anyway, here are some dollars that Anthony let some girl pick up with her tits while we ate tater tots. No bigs!<\/p>\n

\"sassy's<\/p>\n

Monday was my birthday and our last day in Portland. We had a bloody mary brunch at Tasty ‘n’ Sons<\/a>, beers at Hopworks Bike Bar<\/a>, doughnuts at Voodoo Doughnut<\/a>, and coffee at Stumptown<\/a>. I was really sick that day (Was it all the public transportation or was it the strip club? Who really is to blame???). I’m still sick two weeks later, so it’s taken me a while to get my life together and update this thing.<\/p>\n

\"tasty<\/p>\n

\"hopworks<\/p>\n

\"stumptown<\/p>\n

\"keep<\/p>\n

When we got back to Anthony’s house that night, Pammie and Christine came over with birthday burritos from Lolita’s<\/a>! It was a great end to what Anthony refers to as “the time of my<\/em> life.” He wishes!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Six of us were supposed to vacation in Portland, but new jobs, broken water heaters, half marathons and trips to Japan got in the way. Anthony and I obviously have nothing else going on in our lives, so the two of us spent our birthday weekend traveling the pacific northwest without those clowns! One thing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[178,248],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdays","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}