They Build Buildings

I finished my midterms this week and I am still recovering from when my sister and her boyfriend were up here in San Francisco visiting. I have to say it is quite tiring being a tourist in your own city, discovering things that you never really took the time to view and appreciate. More on their visit later. Well actually, it will probably take me months and months to develop the film I shot this past week (Argh! I really need to get better at being more timely with the blog posts or invest in a nice digital camera so that I can post easily!). 
Here is the next batch of photos from when Z and I visited Portland. I really enjoyed the brick buildings since we don't really see much of the brick and mortar here in San Francisco. There's something really charming in seeing that these bricks have stood the test of time and are still standing. Am I being wishy-washy? Probably.   On this day, we walked around the Pearl District and stopped by Powell's Books. It is supposed to be the largest bookstore around with so many used and new books. Z could have probably stayed the whole day perousing the endless aisles. We wanted to buy some books, but did not want to lug them around in our already full luggage.  Whenever Z and I are visiting a new place, we are most content in walking around and wandering into random shops and parks. We seem to find the most interesting things that way, which is completely fine with me. More to come!