Portland & Tacoma

So, since last time i wrote, i've experienced quite a few things.
Thursday last week, me Alexander and Kåre went to visit Portland in Oregon. The whole trip was more or less planned wednesday evening, when we had a conversation on Skype. After we finished i packed some stuff, and went to sleep at Alexanders place, so i would be able to make it to the bus the following morning.
Thursday morning i woke up at 0430 and got in the shower, after walking around half-dead all morning me and Alexander walked up to the buss close to his house. We took the bus too the transit center where we met Kåre. After getting some cash at the ATM in 7-11, we got into the bus that would take us to Seattle. We arrived and Seattle, and after some hassle about figuring out where the train left, we got in, sat down and enjoyed our beautiful 3½ hour trip to Portland. We were mostly reading, sleeping and talking on our way down there.

In Portland things was kind of confusing, it was quite a big town, and none of us knew how to get around. Luckily, we had a smartphone with 3G acces and google maps. And there was some kind of big happening at the H&M store, we think that they had just opnened a new store, but we were never really sure, people were dancing all over the street and, yea, it was kinda crazy and i still haven't gotten what it was all about. But we just loaded our prepared map from home, and found the Apple store where Alexander and Kåre would go and tell the one of the 30 employees that they would like to buy a MacBook Pro but they would pick it up later that day. After that, it was around lunch time and we started to search for lunch. We found it pretty shortly, and even tho it was a little pricey the food was really, really delicious. I don't remember the name of the place tho.
Our Calculus teach at EDCC had told us about a book store in Portland, called "Powells Bookstore" and we just had to see what this was. And yes, it was huge. But we was a little rushed since we still had many things we wanted to see in Portland and therefore we didn't spend that much time in there, but i'm sure it would've been a great and better impression of the bookstore if we had spent some more time there, and might have known what sorta books we were looking for.
Anywho we went on, and was going to a big center a little east from downtown. We ended walking all the way over there, simply because we just seemed to miss the roads that had also had a stop for the train that drove around in the city. We spent 1 hour in the center, i got myself the computergame Medal of Honor and Alexander got himself a Drum-Magazine in Barnes&Nobles.
After that we were pretty eager to get back to the Apple store quick so Kåre and Alexander could have their computers and we didn't have to worry about buying them in time anymore. When we got down there they walked up to the first employee they saw talked to them, and they told them juts to wait for a short while untill a specialist was ready. That took 30 minutes and in the meantime i bought both and iPod Touch for my sister and a sports headset for myself. But in the end they finally got their computers, but it was now so late that we had to run or, well alternate between running and walking really fast to make it to our train back to Seattle.
But we made it, and got on our bus back up to Edmonds and soon we were all home again :)


The next thing that happened was Saturday where we first went to a play at the Theater in Seattle. They performed "The Scarlet Letter" and it was quite good, i'm not that much into Theaters and that sorta stuff, but i think it was allright. But my main focus was on what was going to happen that evening.
Me and Alexander where going to Tacoma to see 4 christian bands perform. Silverline, Brian "Head" Welch ( old guitarist from Korn), Disciple and RED. After the play at the theater ended we just got something to eat and went to find the bus. The bus all the way from Seattle down to Tacoma costed nothing more than 2.5 $ , cheap right? I knew 3/4 of the bands and heard their music prior to the concert, Silverline was the one that i had not heard. And Alexander had not heard any of the music, but a few songs that i had told him to hear. Well, in my opinion everyone was very good, i would've wished they had given more time on the stage to Disciple tho, since they were my favourite of those performing, but RED did a good job aswell.
Our mindset changed quite a bit about christians, since they were acting as weird and amazingly funny and crazy as we does when we goes to a concert ( hard rock) back in Denmark.
Anyways we had a blast and when the concerts ended around midnight we were pretty tired, and was so lucky that my host-dad had offered to pick us up, because they didn't really have had that much time to take me anywhere. So we got an awesome experience, and slept a long time Sunday due to being tied.