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September 09, 2006
Jazz and Rian
Thursday night Ben & I checked out another jazz jam, this one in the North Portland neighborhood of St. Johns. There's a big jazz festival under the St. Johns Bridge every year, and we went to it a few years back. That's pretty much the only time I'd been in that part of town until now. Driving around a bit on the way to the jam, I formed a really favorable impression of the area. I could definitely see living there, if it only had slightly better public transit access to Ben's job.
A lot of the folks at Thursday's jam were the same people we saw at the North Mississipi jazz jam we went to a few weeks ago -- that one's in our neck of the woods.
Ben's been practicing his sax a lot, and I have a hunch he's working himself up to eventually bringing it out to one of these bars and adding to the show.
Now Rian's in town. She's visiting for three consecutive weekends, though this is the only real visit. Next weekend she'll drop her car off here on the way to the Portland airport, and the weekend after that she'll pick it up before heading back south to Corvallis. I wish she lived in Portland.
Posted by Courtney_Sherwood at September 9, 2006 02:03 PM