hanging with friends

hanging with friends is my current addiction. i've only been playing it since saturday, but i can't stop! hahah. for those of those in the stone age (ie w/out a smart phone) hanging with friends is an game app. it's like hangman, which is way better than scrabble. haha. anywho, in my free time (or even not in free time, though i won't admit to playing while i'm working........) i've been playing hanging with friends. it's so much fun and incredibly addicting. but i'm sure you're not here to read about my obsession with this game. haha.
the real good stuff:
we went to the International Rose Test Gardens (http://www.rosegardenstore.org/thegardens.cfm) again to see if the roses were finally in bloom, but very few were. we researched when the roses should bloom and it's from june to october, unfortunately it hasn't been sunny enough to get the roses blooming yet. :( but that's alright, we have plenty of time to go back and visit. after the garden we came back home and then jarrod left for work. i was bored so i decided to try and organize a few things (we're done unpacking, that doesn't mean everything is in it's place yet...haha) and do some laundry while jarrod was gone. that's pretty much it for that day/night.
saturday, i opened at work and it was SLOW. those hours took forever to fly by. something good that came out of work was that i had time to read the Willamette Week (http://wweek.com/portland/) which lead me to finding out about the Fruit Beer Festival going on. i thought it'd be pretty cool to go to that, so once i got off work, jarrod and i left for the Fruit Beer Festival at the Burnside Brewing Company. (http://burnsidebrewco.com/)

 
we took the TriMet for the first time since visiting here in may. it was fun. haha. anywho,on to the beer. we got a commemorative glass (woo!) and then you were allowed tickets ($1 each). one ticket would get you 4 oz and four tickets got you a full glass. we got $8 total (not all ended up getting used. haha). once we got our tickets, we stood in line for...20 minutes or so? got our beer....not sure what kind it was, but we were in line for a belgian apple something or other. it was GROSS. haha. i didn't even get close to finishing mine, and that's all i got that night. haha. jarrod finished his and then ventured into the Rare Beer room where he got an oyster stout with lemon peel (flavor, not the actual peel) which was pretty smooth, i'll admit. it still tasted horrible though. jarrod liked it! hahahah. by this point i was starving, so we left the festival and went searching for food. we ended up at Michael's Italian Beef and Sausage Company (http://www.michaelsitalianbeef.com/). the fries were really good, but i didn't care too much for my sandwich. next time (if there is one) i'm going with pasta. haha. after dinner (it was 9pm by this time) we headed back to the TriMet station and there we waited forever bc we're tourists here, for now. haha. eventually we ended up on a PACKED train (there was an MLS game that night. portland, or maybe it's oregon? just got their first professional men's soccer team. everyone's going crazy for them! haha) and by 11pm we were home. long night, but fun nonetheless. :)
sunday we went to Plato's Closet (that's right, there's one here too!) and then we went to the mall for a bit before i had to go into work at 5.
today, nothing has really happened. i worked 10-6 and jarrod is currently at work so i'm all aloney on my owney.... 
i'm off tomorrow and SUPER EXCITED bc i get to see LORD OF THE RINGS EXTENDED EDITIONS IN THEATERS!!!! ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh yeaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh! haha. i have no idea what we're gonna do before that... something fun. haha.
that's it for now...no big plans for... a while? i'll still update sometime soon. 
:)
-sarah-