Last Thursday, Repeated

Thu, 25 Aug 2005 23:59:59 -800

I went to the monthly Last Thursday street party on Alberta tonight. The last
time that I'd been was in August 2004; since then, a great number of ethnic
restaurants have opened: French, British (fish and chips), Mexican, Japanese,
thus transforming the block into a really cool place to go. True, there still
is the ugly burned out building at NE 21st and Alberta, but the place was
really jumping that night! Partly I think it was the warm summer evening,
but in truth it seemed as if there was just a lot more going on this time
around! There were so many people there that I had to walk a block away
to recover from the sensory overload; while on that jog, a neighborhood woman
spotted me and called "Where are all these cars coming from?" Seriously, I
thought I had the wrong block until I stumbled into the same light shop that
I went to last year and set myself straight.