Day: February 26, 2016

My birthday in Eugene

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Last Saturday was my birthday, so John and I spent the evening in Eugene, by ourselves.  We wanted to check out the neighborhood our new house is in at night, we wanted to walk around Eugene at night, and we wanted to go out to dinner (since it was my birthday).

Initial thoughts:

  • Our new neighborhood is safe and quiet.
  • Eugene is DEAD on Saturday nights.  It was about 7:30 – not a lot of traffic, no one walking around, and all of the restaurants were at least half-empty.  Possible extenuating circumstances: it was February and there was a home basketball game.  Dead is not necessarily a bad thing for us.  We’re hardly party people.  Besides, I’m not sure this was a typical Saturday.  And we didn’t stay out late.
  • The food is GOOD.  We picked a random restaurant after walking around downtown for 20 minutes, as empty as any of them, and had a really good meal.  So very different from our experience in Annapolis.

On our way back to the car after dinner, we passed The Eugene Hotel Retirement Center, where hotels go to retire.  I think.IMG_20160220_210528

The Eugene Hotel Retirement Center is guarded by Doorman Duck.

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I like Eugene.