it's been a while....

where to begin?? i'll start with the hartfields visit, bc the week before they came we seriously did nothing but be lazy. haha.
the hartfields arrived around midnight friday 1st and all of us pretty much went to sleep right after that (except for jarrod, who didn't get home from work til 3am. yikes!) saturday morning i got to into at 8:30am. oh boy! the hartfields (including jarrod) went to Rocky Butte, the Grotto and Saturday Market. From what i heard, they really enjoyed their time at those places. :) they bought us some tye-dye shirts/dress (for me) at the saturday market. lovely. :) finally, i was free from work and ready to join the hartfields in their adventures throughout portland. they met me at the house and then we headed to Washington Park. our first stop was the Japanese Gardens. (http://japanesegarden.com/) we got to spend about 20 minutes in there because the park was closing soon. haha. here's some lovely pics:

after the japanese garden, we went to the International Rose Test Garden, which was finally in bloom! :D

after the rose gardens we went to eat at the Laurelhurst Market (http://www.laurelhurstmarket.com/) for the absolute BEST STEAK i have ever eaten. my mouth is watering thinking about it. i'd almost give anything to have that steak again....man, DELICIOUS!!!! hahaha. it was so good. i cannot stress how GOOD that steak was. man. haha.
alright, moving on to sunday. on sunday we went driving around the columbia gorge scenic highway and we went walking around multiple falls. here's some pics:

after that, jarrod went to work and me and jarrod's parents came back to the house to chill for a bit. i went into work at 5, leaving the hartfields watching The Return of the King on tv (mwahahahhaah!!!). they stopped by the theater later to see the green lantern-the first people i actually personally know to come to my new theater. haha. that was sunday.
monday we went to Voodoo Doughnuts, Too! and stood in line for about 45 minutes. the donuts were worth it, i'd say. :) after the donuts, we went driving around downtown in search of the world's smallest park, and we found it! but it was in the middle of the road, so we didn't stop to stand in it or anything. Mills End is it's name: (http://www.portlandonline.com/parks/finder/index.cfm?PropertyID=265&action=ViewPark). i'm sure sometime soon we'll go back and take pics in the park, but we didn't have time then. once we drove by the park, we went to my home: Powell's City of Books and looked around for an hour or so and then headed back to the house, then the hartfields had to leave for their flight back to texas. :(
and that was our fun four day weekend with the hartfields :D.
i'll save our anniversary for tomorrow, bc i'm too into this episode of hoarders to go on....hahahah.
so there you go...an update. i hope you enjoyed.
-sarah-