Me and friends at Old Spaghetti Factory
Me, Jessica and Melissa - some of my alldeaf.com friends. :)
Dinner at Murray Residence
My hotel - Hotel Fifty on SW Morrison St, in portland downtown
Today was the first full day in America after arriving from Australia - I went to Fuller's Coffee Shop on NW 9th Ave, had Blueberry Pancakes, woah - two LARGE pancakes, and I managed to eat it all following with a large orange juice! It was only $9.25 and yes, of course I tipped in the end.
I went for a good walk around downtown, exploring what downtown is like, it is absolutely a nice clean city, Starbucks was everywhere of course. I managed to get a White Chocolate Mocha this morning before breakfast. I wanted to go and find safeway which is similar to woolworths in Australia so I can get cologne and shaver so I can shave my beard - which is now clean and tidy along with my goatee.
I rested for the afternoon due that I was tired but I managed to recover, I went and called in a cab, which took me to the Old Spaghetti Factory which is only 5 - 8 min drive from my hotel. Where I had dinner with my new deaf friends - the dinner was nice, but meeting friends was the best part - I met Melissa, Jessica, Elva, Daniel and Kaitlinh. The cab fare was only $8.50 so I paid the cab driver $10, and told him to keep the change.
After the dinner, and continuous chatting in rapid ASL - I was totally blended in and this took me by surprise that all of them are in the same age group as I! Makes me feel like home. People here included the deaf friends of mine are VERY friendly. We all went over to my hotel where we continued to chat, but unfortunately they had to go home due to one of my friend who has a 4 month old daughter but we wished we could remained a little longer but there is always another time!
Photos below - enjoy! I'll blog more tomorrow.
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