West Coast Time

I just adapted to the time over there....and I know better than that, it's not like I haven't been on the West Coast before. There was something about being over there this time that put me in an instant comfort zone. My girl lives there, which is a lot different from going on business. It doesn't get any better than when someone shows you around their town, though i'm not knocking the experience of getting around on your own.

When I arrived on Thursday night it was 9:30pm west coast, though 12:30am east coast, I was not tired but rather amped up. The precedence was already set that we were going out, the first thing we did was go home and get changed. Her house is beautiful and perfect for her way of life....cozy, inviting, warm, and plenty of natural surroundings consisting of bushes with blooming flowers, delicious smelling lavender, wild flowers, fountains, ponds, dry burnt grass *sorry girl....tee hee but I keeps it real and a green house which sits in front of a path that leads to a secret garden. This garden has grapes, strawberries, raspberries to mention a few items and my all time favorite, a bench...under the grapevines I might add. She had picked raspberries earlier that morning for us to eat when I arrived. This was nothing special she was doing for me, she picked berries there regularly, she was just happy I was there to enjoy them with her. That is what I mean by her way of life, when I arrived, it was amazing to me that she found a house so perfect for her, no need to travel to pick her natural foods or let her green thumb get the best of her.

We changed in about 45 minutes and headed to the spots where DJs are spinnin vinyl and hip hop, mostly underground and old school. Of course yours truly could've used some R&B up in there but it was all good. We sipped on some Pineapple Mojito's while running into several of "Mannie's" friends and a couple in particular she had agreed to meet there. We drank and danced for a bit and it was nice to see my girl out there getting down with some inches on her feet.... there was a day it was nothing but flats for her unless we wanted the possibility of a sprained ankle. She has since made me aware that it was hard for her to balance the extra weight..... I can dig that ladybug. After we left that club we headed to another one to meet her roommate. This club was NOT poppin, the music wasn't hittin and the folks was funky. I think it was from all them folks who rode their bikes there, with the exception of some of course, but if they were funky, I bet they rode a bike. (Smile) That's what they do....... but Mannie and roomie wasn't feeling it either so we all ended up leaving and heading over to a another friends house, then another....lol, I actually met quite a few folks of her the night I arrived, it was awesome. After our house visit spree, we called it a night. We went back to her place and made our plans for the next day which included early movies after breakfast, some shopping...for a map and clothes ...shoes of course. That was the plan, so we chatted it up some more and soon fell asleep, it had to have been like 3 am when we got home, I guess that meant to sleep by 4 with bed preparation time taken.

Well I have to work tomorrow so to sleep I must go, tonight I finished, or almost finished, packing for my trip to MI on Thursday, can't wait to get home. Hopefully, i'll be don't blogging about Portland so I don't have to double up when I get back from MI. Talk soon -N- be easy.