The people here have been awesomely friendly, the guy in the bank said we could email him any time with questions about Oregon in general, and a couple of people in a Korean eatery helped us with useful tips, like what the pedestrian crossings (cross-walks) look like and where we can find bicycle shops.
We've been roaming around the university bookshop, which also has some pretty crazy stuff, including The Tub O' Flying CATS (extra ammunition for the Catapult):
Also, people really are crazy about Beavers....
Beaver merchandise is everywhere, on just about every building. If the Beavers (football team) are playing a home game, don't try to drive anywhere.
What we've seen of the town itself it extremely pretty. The picture below is of some kinetic art down by the river park (photo taken at 7pm). The whole thing rotates and the individual birds also turn on an eccentric axis, so it looks like they're randomly flying around the lamp-post.
The river park is really musical, with various people busking. Not your every-day busking, mind: there was a string quartet and another guy playing a stringed instrument we couldn't quite identify, but it had a renaissance feel about it. It looked kind of like a lute, but was being played flat on the guy's lap. Any ideas?
Naturally, City Hall is appropriately impressive:
The food so far has been pretty good. The other night I learned how to eat a teriyaki salmon steak with chopsticks, and last night we went to American Dream Pizza. We ordered a medium-sized pizza, and the two of us could barely get through half of it! And one of us was Mort! It was a massive, 5cm-thick pile of mushroom, olives and various cured meats. The mozzarella was on the bottom, which was quite odd. Anyway, I should get going. We have pizza to finish for breakfast.
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