Holy Cow - I am tired!

Wow! Where do I start? The cow came in on friday evening and we had three events to choose from: twilight criterium in the south park blocks, celloist playing at a coffee shop/wine bar, and the Violent Femmes were playing at the Taste of Oregon event for $5.00. Decisions ? Decisions? We started at Eleni's Greek Cuisine. It was awesome - VERY cute bartender, scruffy, tall, great voice - oh yeah, the food and company were excellent also. We had grilled calamari - YUM! Bottle of Greek white wine. After finishing up we took a walk down to the waterfront to see the Femmes. As we were walking up to the event people were lined up on the bridge - this meant that they did not have to pay to get in and they could see and hear everything. Once in we made our way to the beer garden which also sold Oregon wine. We had to show our I.D. to the Alcohol Monitor (hee, hee). This was great. Bought a couple of glasses of wine and headed off to find the stage and listen to the Femmes. I really don't know why we needed a monitor because once we had paid we could have handed our drink to any of the 80,000 people also there to have a good time (O.K. maybe not 80,000 but there was shitload of people). The concert was good and loud and there were people everywhere. I decided that the kids (yes, parents actually take their kids to a concert) had the best seats in the house because they were all sitting on top of the parents shoulders. Next to us there was an old guy rockin out and a woman and her husband singing at the top of there lungs they were standing next to teenagers with dreds and tattoos. It was quite inspiring. As we walked down the street there was a couple in front of us with their new puppy "Governess" in their backpack. Governess got tired at the Femmes and needed a ride home.
Saturday took us to the deep south of the Mississippi Street Fair. Everything you could want in a street fair and more. I especially liked the Posing Pig above one of the many BBQ Rib joints. There were many distractions in ole Mississippi as you can see. The Margarita Bar in the middle of the street, the black rose collective bookstore, the Moxie - Roadside Juice Bar, and Pistils Nursery for all of you herbal needs. There was a sign for an Open house around the corner so we strolled down to check it out. The smaller green house on the left is the one that was open (I know they are both green). It was quite awesome at 370,000.00 but the back yard was a major freeway. The yellow house with the corrugated metal is awesome - I don't know the story on it but when I do I will let all of my devoted readers aware. The Pink place is actually a restaurant that is spectacular - Lovely Hula Hands! All of this and more from Mississippi!