Holiday Weekend Perfection

What I did this weekend:

• Had dinner with two friends on Friday night, one of whom now lives in Australia. It had been almost three years since I last saw Sara and it was wonderful catching up, even though it wasn't long enough.
• Drove to Portland Saturday morning with Michelle. We stayed at a really nice hotel on the Columbia River. The weather was absolutely perfect -- high 70s and sunny.
• We stopped at some outlets on the way and I bought new clothes for summer. Yay!
• We visited the Saturday Market - super crowded and not really our thing but fun for people watching. Tons of tattoos, dogs and passed out people.
• We visited our second favorite Portland area mall, Washington Square (I love Clackamas the most.) We went to Williams-Sonoma where I spent my birthday money on a RED Le Creuset (Oregon has no sales tax - ours is 9.5% so it was like it was on sale. Almost.)
• We took the trolley into downtown and shopped, shopped and shopped some more. We experienced Anthropologie for the first time ever, which was very fun. We checked out the half yearly sale at Nordstrom, went to Macy's where I went a little crazy. Fabulous sales.
• We saw Star Trek. LOVED IT! I seriously seriously seriously love Chris Pine. Yum.
• I coughed so much at night. It was horrible. I tried everything to stop it and nothing worked. I haven't had a good night's sleep for the last three nights because of it. But I feel better overall.
• While we were in the hotel room, we watched a lot of the Jon & Kate Plus 8 marathon. I'd never watched that show before this weekend and I have to say Kate is mean. Jon has his moments too but Kate is so rude to her husband. And Maddie, one of the older twins, is a total mini-Kate, and that is not a compliment. I hope for their family's sake, they go into some sort of therapy. I also think they should stop doing the show so they can work on putting their family back together.

And finally, if you are a praying sort of person, will you please say a prayer for my blogging friend Michelle (not to be confused with the Michelle I spent my weekend with.) Michelle's mom is fighting liver cancer and they could all use your prayers. Thank you...