Sunday Parkways 2010 -vs- 2011

This past weekend was the annual North Portland edition of 'Sunday Parkways!'  An event we look forward to all year long.  Sunday Parkways is a planned route of streets & parks within a section of town that they close off to car traffic. The streets are open to bikes, walkers, joggers, skateboarders, even saw some old style roller skates, and in a previous year, a unicycle.  It's one of those fun events that make you not only get to see the neighborhoods, and the neighborhood parks, but enable you to see the glorious people of Portland for whom the expression, 'Keep Portland Weird!' was written about.  The people-watching is tres fabu!  At each park they have activities, food, music, vendors - information, neighborhood association, etc.  And on the route in between parks, often you have lil' entrepreneur's-in-training selling lemonade from anywhere from $.25 to $1.00, and my favorite, Jake's Yearly Toy Sale.  That kid was cleaning house and cleaning wallets.  This year, we took Andi in our new bike trailer and she slept most of the way.  After two hours of that, we switched to the jogging stroller and walked a good chunk of the 8-mile route, until she fussed and then projectile puked all over Daddy!  Then, it was time to go home! 

In 2010, Andi, Ginga & I went across the street to our park, which is one of the six parks included, and sat in the shade with our sleeping Bean.  She had recently come home from her first month in the hospital, and was just about to go back - for what, I honestly don't remember which problem.  I figured a good ol' photo comparison will shut up the whiny voice in my head, as a visual of not where she is on the growth chart -- which really isn't a fair assessment of our girl, but, a visual on how far she's come in this past year.




Sunday Parkways 2010

 


Sunday Parkways 2011

  Here are a few more comparison photos, albeit, you can't really see her size under the blanket.



Sunday Parkways 2010

 

Sunday Parkways 2011



Stroller - Sunday Parkways 2011

Standing at Sunday Parkways 2011

After Sunday Parkways, we decided to get cleaned up and go out to dinner. Since the weather was shockingly nice, we decided on a place on the river, so we could continue to enjoy the outdoors. Andi was pretty beat from her super charged day o' fun, and slept through the entire meal.

Passed Out!



Passed Out, but with my pacie!