The First Great Adventure

I must apologize for not posting. I've been experiencing a surplus of sloth like qualities in myself. I'll try and not leave such a long gap between posts again.

Portland is Oregon's slum! It's a great city with lots to do it just looks sad most of the time. I love to visit, but I have very little desire to live in that area. Well Gabe, Matt, Leeann, Yoni and I decided in Gabe's and Yoni's last week we should do something fun and exciting, so I decided to plan a trip to Portland and so some sightseeing! 

 I ended up with very few pictures of this trip........cough ....cough Gabe...ha We first went to Voodoo doughnuts, but discovered that it was closed : /, So alas I'm virginal to the taste of their artery clogging foods. To fill the time we were supposed to spend eating doughnuts and slowly killing ourselves we went shopping!

That sounds exciting, but it ended up me just buying underwear and Gabe buying a few things. We enjoyed walking downtown and being harassed by a Hobo calling us little S%^&s. He then asked for money from us (not a convincing man). We trailed through the city some more and decided it was time for us to move on to our next destination.

Rocky Butte in Portland is an awesome view point of the city and surrounding area. It's my favorite place to go in Portland and enjoy the city without feeling like you're in the city. We left downtown and headed to the bridge that our directions designated we should take; however, the bridge had maintenance being done and made it easy for all of us to be confused and get lost which we did. We ventured through the city for a while till we recognized a sign and eventually made it back on track!

Once we made it to the Butte I think our group was rather unimpressed with the simplicity of it, but I didn't care that part of the trip was for me! ; ) We talked and walked around for about thirty minutes enjoying the views and wishing we had decided to have a picnic up there. After taking another picture I don't have now we headed to lunch.

I needed gas on that ride so we decided to pull in at a station. This was one of thee worst experiences and displays off driving I've ever lived through. People were coming in at every direction to get gas snagging places and hogging pumps. Eventually a kind lady made it easy for us to fill up, but it truly was a cluster f*&#. Lunch was at a Taco Bell which was oddly better priced than any in my town. On our way to lunch we were all concentrated on finding street signs I ran a red light.......... I almost crapped myself. (The next hour I was mentally punishing myself over this)

On the road to Multnomah Falls we sang and missed the first waterfall we had planned on playing in. We made it to Multnomah and talked awhile about climbing them. I wasn't against the climb, but I knew it wouldn't be easy. Getting to the bridge to view the falls we finalized our choice to ascend the falls.

Our climb was long, but more fun than I had thought it would be.

The top of the falls was a beautiful view.

The descent was a lot quicker and less fun in my opinion. We lost sight of the girls for awhile, but when you're on a trail that really only has one exit you know they would appear eventually.

After deciding that going to another waterfall didn't sound like an exciting idea we headed to IKEA!

Ikea is a huge store that is a lot of fun to get lost in.

 

 We made our own path through the store, but saw almost everything. We also decide to rest after soooooo much climbing.

The whole trip winded down after this. We forgot to try and make it to the other Voodoo Doughnuts and the weather went bad, so we called it a night and came home!

For Leanna

A few days ago I made the first of hopefully many recipes. I spent the day running around preparing for going to my friends to cook, and I was still late... stupid car. However the rest of the night was a lot of fun. I decided to go with something Chocolate, because Leanna who has been a doll taking pictures and showing me how to do things for this blog seems to want chocolate often, so I went for it. I picked a Chocolate Tuxedo cake for Leanna. I've never made something like this without an experienced baker, so I was nervous for the turn out. The intended turnout was supposed to be great, but we fell short although it was tasted awesome!

There was supposed to be a chocolate glaze... I just didn't get enough of everything. It still tasted awesome.

 I hadn't realized that with three layers there would be so much cake. I'm not a chocolate cake person, but this was great. I enjoyed the whole process I'm excited for the next one.

Gabe and Leanna were fun to do this with. He is leaving back to Italy in 11 days, and Leanna is leaving for a month and a half. : / I don't like them going, but having this first experience with them is really why I wanted this blog. Food helps make some awesome memories and these are two people I don't want to forget.

We couldn't just make a cake and call that a fun night, so we went to Corvallis and explored Chip Ross park and Hell's gate. I've been to both several times they contrast each other enough that our night was fun; however, no matter what you plan there will always be complaints Such as, "No flashlights!!!", and, "This is dumb". I know it was worth it. Somehow when you fall, mess things up and forget things like flashlights and whipping cream those are the things that make spending time with other people more memorable.


If anyone wants this recipe or horrible directions to hells gate email me at DiplomeDiet@yahoo.com 

The Intention

                   My name is Micky, I'm an incoming college student that has way too much free time, so I decided I need to do something aside from watching T.V. I bought a keyboard to teach myself piano and I read a lot, but both of those things have limits to how much I can do before I'm bored. To fill some of my excess free time I Stumble and a few of my interests are traveling and cooking. I was talking with two of my good friends and one of them has a blog that she enjoys to occupy herself with.
It’s a dumb idea for me to try this, and I will probably end in me regretting the whole experience (at least temporarily), but I decided why not blog? Stumbling always provides me lots of great recipes, so my intention is to blog about recipes over this summer and through college next year. I have no real idea on how cooking in my dorm will go, but why not let the internet enjoy this too?
College and my new car will take me to many new places with the friends I meet, so when I do something blog worthy I want to share with my currently non-existent readers. I'm an open person and I normally focus on the pessimistic side of life with a sarcastic undertone. I want to share my opinion of the interesting places I go and the food I try there. I hope that someone will enjoy this, but I'm more so doing this because I like food and I hate being bored.