These fireworks are on fire....

Friday night was spent wandering around the carnival and watching fireworks down at Waterfront park. It was the kick-off of the Portland Rose Festival, which is a pretty big deal here in our fair city. It starts Memorial Day weekend and then continues on most of the month of June.

Jen and I planned on going down to watch the fireworks and, thinking along the lines of "the more, the merrier", I invited almost everyone I know... Stef decided to bring Luke down and meet up with us and Jen's friend, Richard, also met us downtown. It was nice to hang out with everyone and chat and oooh and ahhh at the fireworks. I took tons of pictures. After the fireworks, Stef and Luke parted ways and headed home, while Jen, Richard and I drove across the river and stopped at Suki's. It's a cool Karaoke bar. We drank, listened to people sing karaoke and people watched. Richard sang a song and there were many rounds of "happy birthday" between songs. Guess quite a few people were born on 5/22 or something. After that, we went to Victory and drank. I was the designated driver, so I didn't drink much and just enjoyed getting out, since my Friday nights are usually full of homework these days.... and will be for the next two weeks.

While I should be working on schoolwork, (right now and this whole weekend), I decided to crop with Heidi and a few of the other ladies last night. I got quite a bit done and started some layouts. When I've completed them, I'll post 'em.

Here are the photos from the Rose Festival Kick Off Festivities....