gluttony in portland: day 5

Saturday. We got to LUCE early! Yay!

getting ready for more creative business work

At lunchtime, we were forced outside for some air and pizza was ordered. Lisa and I wandered the neighborhood, window shopped and returned to ransacked pizza boxes with not much remaining. Oh well.
More work ensued,
1:1s with Erin,
and killing time at Matador...

3 tomatoes: ketchup, salsa, juice
2 starches: fries, chips

"I EAT VEGANS"
Lisa: "What do vegans taste like?"
Anne: "Chicken"

until we reconvened at Navarre for wine...

eating, drinking, making merry

appetizers...

pickle plate, ken's bread, radishes

radishes w/french butter

fava shoots (I would have liked them better braised), pear, cheese

and dinner

menu like a questionaire

"bird" haha

thus concluded our ACE Camp experience.
But wait! The gluttony is not over!

gluttony in portland: day 4

the binder

Friday was our first full day of "Camp"

coffee from Heart

We convened at LUCE and got down to some serious creative business work!

my new mission statement: "do it with gusto"

For lunch, we split up into small groups and foraged.
Lisa, Caroline, Carina, Kristina and I chose La Buca

fumoso panini + pesto-topped mash potatoes
sandwich = meh
spuds = OMG!

We returned to Camp for a couple hours of more work, then Lisa and I went home for an AWESOME Tim dinner: grilled tuna and veggies

have you ever grilled rapini?
give it a try! SO DELICIOUS!

fire!

gluttony in portland: day 3

Thursday in Portland started out slowly - Lisa needed to sleep in! Fine by me.
When we finally got moving, we started with a late breakfast at Tasty n Sons

coffee!

chocolate donut hole!

egg on grilled + parmaseaned asparagus + bacon

Next, we shopped the neighborhood. Some cool shops!
[Shopping report will be on SpyGirl eventually.]

On to downtown Portland.
Lisa had to submit some paperwork at work. I waited in the lobby and amused myself.

Next we worked our way over to the Ace Hotel to meet our fellow ACE Campers (no affiliation). Of course we were late (this became a running gag for a while) so we missed our goodie bags. Drat! We all walked over to the Nines Hotel, to have cocktails in the atrium.

the gals

We grazed on appetizers and got to know one another.

warmed olive with lemon zest. mmmmmm

After a thwarted attempt at having dinner at the food trucks (they were closed), Lisa and I went home to a Tim dinner.
Thus concludes day 3.

gluttony in portland: day 1

I arrived in Portland on Tuesday evening, June 21. My 'business write-off" reason was to attend the PDX ACE camp with Erin Loechner. My "real" reason was to visit Lisa and escape LA!
I maintained restraint on day 1 (it's called being too cheap to spring for airport food) but happily ate the TWO bags of honey peanuts provided on each leg of the journey.

Yep. Livin' large on Southwest.


Many more pix can be seen on my Flickr here