Multnomah Days 2006: Everything got bigger!

So I'm not going to go into huge detail just yet, I'll post again on the topic of this year's Multnomah Days, but I wanted to get a few thoughts and teh picture gallery up.

A few impressions of this year's Multnomah Day festivities in convenient bullet-list form:

• The parade seemed at least twice as long this year
• How many churches and day care centers do we have in this neighborhood anyway? (answer = a lot)
• Sam Adams, once again, plays well to a crowd. No wonder he continues to be the favorite politico of pretty much anywhere in Portland. I mean, unless you're talking about the tram...
• We do NOT approve of the carny vendor types selling cheap plastic swords, trumpets and other carnival junk along the parade route. And it's not just us, this sentiment was shared by several others around us. There's a very definite line between our neighborhood festival and the ROSE festival, and we'd like to keep it that way, thanks.
• Free snow cones! Score!!
• We're a little nervous about the hippie circus guys, but we're learing to live with it.
• Oh, and we skipped the movie to attend a friend's birthday, How'd it go?

Of course there are photos. I got shots of most of the parade. There are 67 shots in the gallery, so if you were in the parade - you may well be in one of these pictures. You can use the graphic button at the top of the screen to go directly to the photo gallery from this year. If you're reading this post on an RSS feed, use this link:

Multnomah Days 2006 Photo Gallery

I'd be happy to supply my full-resolution images, if you're in one of the pictures, or you just see a shot you like. The full res JPEGs expand to around 11MB, which will give you enough resolution for a 31"x23" image at screen resolution, or a 5x7 at full offset press resolution (300ppi). It's more than sufficient for a 8x10 image from an inkjet or photo printer. More Details are on the gallery page.

Here's a link to Last Year's Gallery....

Hope you had fun - we saw so many people we knew. Lots of nice suprise meetings along the street, and even my former co-workers Mark and Shari bringing up the rear of the parade in Mark's vintage Datsun. Same time next year?