I arrived home this morning at 4am, after 5 wonderful days in Portland, Oregon, and Sock Summit. I’ve been to bigger events, even events that were more organized, but I’ve never been to a big knitting event that was as much fun as this one. The difference was the friendliness of everybody – the staff, the volunteers, the vendors, and the attendees. I don’t usually feel comfortable in a crowd, but the universal openness and friendliness of everybody was disarming.
And the people of Portland are friendly too! Instead of staying in a hotel near to Sock Summit, I stayed in downtown Portland’s Pearl District. I was within walking distance of the library, Elephant Deli, Art Museum, Button Emporium, MAX transportation, restaurants, parks, fountains, and more I missed. My hotel was the Paramount (on Taylor), and they had a bomb scare, just a scare not a bomb, and the police were friendly too.
Next time I’ll talk about the classes I took and maybe add some photo links. I haven’t gotten my pictures together yet. They are just iPhone snapshots, but I’ll probably load them onto flickr in spite of their funkiness. Now I’m just too tired.
Oh, please post pictures. Renate
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