The school offered us in the beginning of the term, the opportunity to go to Portland, Oregon, to shop on Black Friday, because they have no taxes. Of course everybody wanted to go, because we didn’t only save money because it was black Friday, we also saved the taxes!
So we had to be ready to drive to Oregon 9 AM in the morning. Mostly everybody had big suitcases with them, and then I came with my normal bag. Yup, I was so ready to shop till I dropped. But first of all: driving in bus for 3 and a half hour! Weeee!
Obviously not the best part of the trip, but I just fell asleep, so I didn’t really care about that part.
When we arrived to Portland I was so tired from getting up so early, but we just had to shop. And I had my plans: Apple store! I’ve talked so much about buying an iPod and finally I did, so now I’m the happy owner of a small little baby, iPod nano! I’m glad that I waited until this trip to buy to, because I saved lots of money on it, compared to Danish price and the price in Seattle.
Obviously not the best part of the trip, but I just fell asleep, so I didn’t really care about that part.
When we arrived to Portland I was so tired from getting up so early, but we just had to shop. And I had my plans: Apple store! I’ve talked so much about buying an iPod and finally I did, so now I’m the happy owner of a small little baby, iPod nano! I’m glad that I waited until this trip to buy to, because I saved lots of money on it, compared to Danish price and the price in Seattle.
Then we just went from shop to shop and… well, used all of our money (actually I didn’t).
In the evening we went back to the hotel. Me and Mette Bækgaard shared room and then we changed to our pajamas. Or I did, Mette put on her one piece from H&M. we had been talking about it all day and nobody except from Mette Bækgaard, Mette Bennekov and I knew what we were talking about. And in the evening she just went out to the lobby in this one piece! Everybody just looked at her, really fun! But I think the real Black Friday was when all the shops opened at midnight, when people were just waiting in line and going crazy. That was also the time when all the stores had the big sales. But I think this is okay. Maybe overrated, but that's okay for me that there is no big croud of people.
But Bækgaard, Matias, Erik and I were at our room almost all evening. We were playing Ligretto, which is a game that Bækgaard had brought. And of course she won the game.
But Bækgaard, Matias, Erik and I were at our room almost all evening. We were playing Ligretto, which is a game that Bækgaard had brought. And of course she won the game.
Besides playing Ligretto we did those things you shouldn’t do on a hotel: jump in the bed, playing with the elevators and all that. And then we came up with this idea that we had to watch a movie. But as on every other hotel, you would have to pay for that. So what to do? Find the wallet and go down to the reception and say that we have five dollars that we wanna spend on a movie. and when we came up to our room, we could use five dollars on everything for five dollars or less. It was like if a kid just got five dollars to candy from its mother. But we’d already decided what movie we wanted to watch, so we just pressed the ‘Order’ bottom (yeah, all we needed was room service!). As always I fell asleep to the movie. I always do that, so of course I did it this time too. But at least I woke up before the ending this time! And it was only 1:30 when the movie was over, and we weren’t that tired anymore. We just talked for some time – before going to the fitness room! Yes, we went to the fitness room 2 AM! It wasn’t fun going to bed at 3:30 at night, and then the alarm started 7 AM again. Man, I was so tired I didn’t wanna get up from bed. But Mette forced me, even though she had a hard time waking me up, and she had less sleep than I had!
And then we went for breakfast before going to this waterfall. It was 45 minutes away from the hotel, but it was an opportunity to sleep, so I did. No problem! And it was a beautiful fall. Mogen, Mette Bennekov and I hiked halfway up. We didn’t have time for more. Or the power to continue, so we just walked back to the bus. And when we came into the bus, guess what? I fell asleep again. We were going to spend the rest of the day shopping in Portland, and honestly I just wanted to sleep, no surprise. But I ended up using money on lots of stuff anyway, so I guess it wasn’t that bad after all. But when we came to the bus in the afternoon to drive home to college – I just didn’t want to be awake anymore, so I decided to sleep! I didn’t sleep as much as I could, but I slept for at least one hour.
My conclusion? Amazing trip to Portland, nothing less!
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