Okay the guest bed at Jason and Jenn’s wins!! It is the %^*&$@% bomb! King size time sucker. We could easily never leave this room. We do because a) we have an awesome nephew named Solomon and b) we love this town. I think six year olds are way smarter than they used to be, but also Sol is smarter than other six year olds. Blake has a new prodigy–he already rocked the melodica after just one day. He also has a guitar and a old school Casio keyboard.(B is loving it) So first day I got up and went blueberry picking with Jill and Jake(I love this dog). We went out to Kruger farms(http://www.krugersfarmmarket.com) were you can pick your own, plus they have a market with all kinds o’goodies. Jill is gonna make some jam. mmm jam. Other than that I hung out with the peeps then later the boys went down to the Moon and Sixpence pub for some beer. Blake got to watch a local band called Trash Can Joe. Check them out at http://www.trashcanjoe.com. They rode bikes down to the pub(that is what you do in Portland) and Blake had a long tired ride home at one in the morning:)

Thursday we went exploring. Blake is on the hunt for a small accordion and the guy from the band suggested a place down on Hawthorne. It was a really cool place with a ton of rare finds and no accordions. They did have a back room full of organs and B3’s and Leslie speakers though. Trouble! B is in love with an old Ann Arbor pump organ, and I have to admit it sounded so warm and beautiful I was ready to find a way to make it his. Alas we had to leave the shop sans organ and head back to the house. I made yummy fish tacos and we bummed around the rest of the night.