the mecca of bookstores

Sunday we made it to the Lord's day meeting and enjoyed the Lord...giving praise and thanks for what He has done. During introductions we stood together and said we were from Austin (old family friends still think I'm 'from Portland', which I am, but hey! a girl has got to start claiming someplace as 'home'...). After greeting so many that I had been missing these past few months, we went to lunch at the Original Spaghetti Factory on the Willamette River... you know, the one with the purple roof. Then headed off to do some of the shopping that we had fully intended to do. We hit the Columbia Sportswear Outlet, and mecca of all bookstores:Powell's bookstore (a 3-4 story building that spans an entire city block downtown...way cool!) Sunday night was movie night after we packed and made phone calls.