and after seeing that, i was decided. i am finally going to see relient k in concert. taking a look at the tour dates, i was looking at a few options, vegas (that's a pretty easy trip, plus lots of other things to do there independently), san diego (ever since going there for the asha convention i've been wanting to go back... but, i don't know anyone there and it'd be pretty depressing going there solo), and salem, oregon. vegas would've been the easiest (especially since i'd be off of work during that time), but i decided it was finally time to visit my super awesome friend brandi in oregon. so that was it. with that i decided to take a trip to PORTLAND!
so after skipping my usual over-exhaustive research and thinking and planning processes, i decided it was time to take action. details can be worked out later. i needed to stop thinking and start doing. i bought my plane tickets and concert tickets and i'm all set. i put in my personal leave at work, confirmed plans to not be here and i'm gone, that's it, i'm doing.
now... now that everything's bought and paid for, now it's time to plan what to do! brandi, i'm giving you full green-light authority to be portland expert here, i obey all your suggestions and you have total veto power over anything that i think is cool but actually might not be. she already wrote me a tentative awesome portland things to do list on her blog so i'm looking through all her suggestions and they all look great. along with those things, i think the things that i'm most amped about doing are:
1. renting a car - not that i'm really amped about it, but i still need to do it and so i'm writing it down here so i don't forget
2. relient k concert - okay, as you can see on the flyer, relient k is actually NOT the head-liner (i can't say i really like toby mac, but i do know some of his songs, but it matters not as long as relient k is somewhere in there), but it's gonna be awesome, just before christmas with songs from their christmas album and their latest album (forget and not slow down) which i've been listening to in my car everyday since i got it
3. portland eats! - man every single website brandi posted makes me salivate... i'm really gonna enjoy eating well in portland
4. beer + movies? - it happens in portland! finally, a city with some common sense
5. oregon coast/scenery - even though i love the beaches, i am really looking forward to seeing the northwest landscape. it's so different from any kind of forest that i'd see here and there's something even almost enchanting about the rain and gloominess of the weather (of course, we'll see about that when i'm freezing cold and getting soaked, but until then...)
6. weird portland - i guess a big tourist pull in portland is that everyone is kinda kooky. so going to the saturday market or seeing all the arts and everything just around the city will probably be kinda cool
okay, i still have lots to research, but let's take things one at a time... first off, i got our concert tickets in the mail, woo hoo!
lots more coming... this is just the beginning!
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