Portland - Part 2

The next day we headed out to where Shane works. He's the head pastry chef at a really fancy shop. Think Panera but everything costs twice as much and tastes wayyy better. It was fun seeing all the groomed pure bred dogs (with papers I presume) and $200 sunglasses and nice clothes of all the patrons. Business was brisk. Shane kept cranking out item after item like a cool zen master.


Here's one of his works... an apple-bread-putting something or other. It tasted as good as it looked.
We gave our best effort to sample as much as was humanly possible.

As you can see, we fit right in with the yuppies. You can see these cheese puffs in the middle of the table that Shane whipped up for us. The remnants anyway, they went pretty fast. We felt special, they were off-menu, although the owner tasted them and I think that's going to change. Shane also sent us home with some blueberry crumble pastries that were "damaged" although for the life of me I couldn't see anything wrong with them. We choked them down.

We turned off the smart-focus on our camera and set it to focus in the center of the frame (you could then move the frame) so we would have greater control on what is in focus. Because of this, we have a lot of strange photos of Susan and I. So I thought I would include this (and give Eric a little crap) as representation of all of these types of photos we have. This is a terrific composition Eric took of the back of a guys head.
After bidding Shane and Tom farewell we headed back toward Seattle. (Eric rented a car and was driving us which was awesome!) Our tour guide took us on a detour to Cannon Beach. Susan has been all over Europe and stuff, but this was her first time at the Pacific.
I dared to wear shorts this day! It was nice here but a little chilly later on when we lost the sun.
Us cleaning our feet after playing on the beach. Eric took this too, which I think is really a terrific shot.
We stopped at the Rogue brewery on the way home as well. We were there at off-peak time and the kind barkeep must have let us taste at least 20 of their 25 beers on tap. Only a few of those varieties get distributed out East so it was pretty cool. They had a Hazelnut beer that was unique and pretty good. But in my opinion the best (and what I had a pint of) was the Double Dead Guy Ale. Although I think this is Susan's beer.