This past week was fall break from school!!! Hooray! When I die I am going to find the person who suggested fall break and give him a big fat kiss. This was along awaited vacation! When the bell rang I was so excited I may have ran over a few of my students.
My friend Kristine has been bugging me to come up and visit her in Portland for a year. Kristine and I were in the BYU Special Education/ESL Program together and after surviving two long years we became life long friends.
Kristine lives next to the town where Matt and Amy Roloff live from Little People Big World. Every year Matt opens the farm up to public to sell pumpkins and give tours of the the grounds. Kristine and Kristin called in sick and away we went to the Roloff Farm. The farm was like Disneyland Oregon style! We were able to take both tractor tours that took us all around the farm and stopped in Western Town. To our surprise we were able see everyone from the show we met Matt's parents Honey and Popey, waived to Matt sitting on his front porch, saw Amy walking around the pumpkin patch, their art director Swen was driving around on the mule, and I was able to take a picture with Rocky the dog. While we were there TLC was currently taping an episode, so keep a look out for us on Little People Big World. The farm was amazing and words can not describe how much fun we had.
The Cherry Hill Special Education Team
The School Principal and Secretaries Needing A Diet Coke!
Myself with Amanda the School Psychologist
David the 5th Grade Teacher Trying to Drink Me
On my last day in Portland Kristine felt that I needed to experience Portland's Saturday's Market. She described it like a Seattle Pike's Place on crack...and she was right! Where else can you eat an elephant ear, buy an organic hemp cotton t-shirt with a dinosaur on it, get your palm read by an old lady, get a henna tattoo, make a drunk guy's day, and have your picture taken with a Jimmy Hendrix look alike? You can do all this in one day at the Saturday's Market.
Our day started out riding the Max into down town to avoid parking. Once we where there I ate and shopped from the moment I stepped off the Max until I got back on hours later. I was able to have my palm read for $5.00 by a lady that told me all about my future and life! According to her reading I have good things to come! She was like a talking fortune cookie! Jimmy Hendrix was walking around the market, so I paid him a $1.00 to have my picture taken with him. For the rest of the day when he passed me he screamed out hey "FOXY LADY". Saturday's Market was amazing!
While I was in Portland on vacation I discovered that they have parks just for little people. Who would have known? I was so excited I had to see this park with my own two eyes. Sure enough it was a park just for me...a little person!
