Sunday outing 5-2-10

It's a beautiful Sunday afternoon and we are headed to the Waterfront. This is a tower at the Max station that I thought was so coolOur destination... the Cinco de Mayo festival at Tom McCall Waterfront Park. The weather is supposed to be halfway decent so we are looking forward to getting out. Did you know that we got 24 days of rain in April? Ugh!

But then, we didn't even go in. We walked all around the festival and decided there wasn't really anything we were interested in seeing so we headed to Saturday Market.

One stop by the river...wait baby, let me take your picture!

Look at the busy street. Good thing we took Max cuz there was no parking left!

This is such a cool picture. We might have to enlarge it. The greenish building with the sphere (to the left) is the Convention Center.

Here's another great shot of downtown Portland.

We walked and walked and walked until we made it to Saturday Market.

We watched an artist as she worked on her latest creation. It was cool to watch someone else be so creative. I wish I could paint but that turns out even worse than my latest attempt at Dance Dance Revolution. I can't dance, I can't paint. I just have to find another way to be creative!

Time for a snack. Ben and I shared a really good burger and even better fries. All the while, we watched people. There were some fun ones, some happy ones and some down right weird ones.It was a beautiful day but not that warm. Surprisingly, there were children playing in the fountain... At least the fountain stream was strategically placed so you can't see anything! He was running all over and laughing the whole time.

An entertaining man, he said that he was a circus all on his own. I think he had as much metal in piercings as he did in the "knives" he was juggling!

A one man band...he was actually pretty good. We listened to him as we were waiting for Max to arrive.

Another pretty skyline- too bad it's time to head home. But we have to make it to Costco before they close so time to catch a train!