10-07-2023 Entry

Nice walk over to a popular breakfast place, Stepping Stone Café, where we waited in line for about 20 minutes before being seated. It was very Portlandia. Food was decent, Ann's was better than mine, but I had chosen something pedestrian, so it figured. Late in the morning, we hiked up through Forest Park to the Stone House, which has some connection with witchcraft. The forest trails were beautiful. Then in the afternoon we took the bus to the Pearl District. Walked to Powell's Books and saw this cool bookstore. Ann wasn't as interested as me, so we went to a paper store afterward. Boring. Then we had slushies at Pink Bunny, and that was good. Finally, we went to a video arcade with pinball and classic video game machines, which was quite fun. On the walk to the bus stop from there, we walked through Chinatown, not so impressive and filled with a lot of people on the sidewalks getting ready to rough it for the night.