Portland Japanese Garden

Sandy's Cultural Event #5

Oops, I forgot to write about this last week. We finally went to the locally revered Japanese Garden, which is not even a 10-minute walk from our apartment. The cherry blossoms on 23rd Ave were blooming, so I'd assumed they'd be blooming in the garden, too. Nope. Nary a bud in sight. So it was pretty dumb to pay the $7 to wander around before anything colorful appears. Though it was lovely anyway, I'm going to want to go back in spring and again in fall, which adds up to okane takusan. Hmm, I forget if that's the right way to say "a lot of money" in Japanese. Whatever.