Downtown Las Vegas was such a fun place to spend Halloween! Giant drinks and great people watching made it an evening to remember!

I'm published! Well, on the web, at least. My friend Caroline of CarolineOnCrack (about dining, drinking, and happenings in LA) has been taking a little hiatus, and I was a guest blogger on her site. Check out www.carolineoncrack.com and scroll down to November 18 to see what I wrote about The Gardens of Taxco!!

This is a spectacular place to visit, and gives me back at least 5 of the 10 years that I age with each weekend spent in Vegas:)

Portland! I ran out of time to talk about the shopping, but let it be known that Portland had some of the BEST thrift stores I've come across anywhere. Great stuff, and totally reasonable prices. And I don't even like shopping!

Here's Part 2 of my delicious trip to Portland, OR. One thing that I failed to mention that I really liked about the restaurants there is that EVERYPLACE had at least vegetarian, and probably vegan options. Even, like, Meaty Meaterson's Meat Palace would have something for the non-meat eater.