Pike Schemes Visits

As some of you may have noticed, Sara (of Pike Schemes) and I are devoted blog followers of each other. She easily wins the prize for most comments left on my blog and I have a feeling I'm a top-three finisher for the prize of "most comments left" on her (and Shawn's) blog. So it was thrilling to have Pike Schemes in Portland.

They were in town for a few hours, on their way to Shawn's cousin's wedding, but we had enough time for them to get a tour of the school I work at and to have lunch at Byways, where this picture was taken. You can see it's obverse here.
After lunch we walked back to school and stopped at Cupcake Jones where Sara fell in love with "The Pearl" cupcake. Cupcake Jones describes "The Pearl" as a: white velvet cake filled with vanilla pastry cream, topped with vanilla bean buttercream icing and a single handmade white chocolate pearl.

After that Shawn and Sara gave me a ride home so they could see "The Orange Door" in person. Then they were off to Corvallis and a wedding. It was great to see them.