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What a great day! Not only is the date a palindrome, but today I enjoyed the best part of corporate America....PAID TIME OFF! My friend, Joni, is back in town for a few days before she moves away. I am quite sad since she has been my best friend since moving to Portland and my tender mercy from the Lord. So I thought it would be fun to take the day off and spend it with Jones!

We started the day off with shopping. We are very good at it and especially together. We went to Nordstrom's to try on shoes and 2.5 hours later, we had tried on more than 50 different pairs of shoes! I am sure the sales-lady hated us, but it was so much fun. Also, we wear the same size so we just kept trying on shoes the other one would pick out. It was quite the system we had going!

After, we explored the many wonderful scents of Bath and Body Works. Don't even worry, Vanilla Bean Noel is there now! Seriously, it is like putting vanilla yogurt on as lotion....yummy! Also, they had some other fun scents that were so good too.

Then in honor of Portland spirit, we bought matching scarves!

After we went to Whole Foods for some snacks then we headed downtown. And what do you do to truly "experience" Portland? You go to Voodoo Doughnuts. And that is exactly what we did! I got the bacon maple bar of course and then we picked out some other fun ones.

To finish the night out, we went on the Portland Spirit Dinner Cruise. It travels up and down the Columbia River and offers great views of the city. We got hot cocoa to warm us up when we first got on board. Then we ate yummy salmon stuffed with crab and shrimp, along with bread, salad, veggies, and rice. We finished the night off with cheesecake! We enjoyed the good times of being together even though it was pretty rainy, but really if we were going to truly experience Portland the rain was quite appropriate.

Giving thanks for the Lord's tender mercies!