So, after a few weekend  hours spent working on WorldLightASP I took off downtown to catch what I could of the Rose Festival.

I feel like I was guided right to this thing. I took the train to Old Town, China Town in Portland and thought "hmmm maybe I should get off here."

I almost walked to the Portland Saturday Market but I saw these tents off to my right toward the Perl district. The funny thing is I almost didn't go. Gay Pride is here in Portland and even thought it looked like a party... well, it gave me pause to consider. It was the beat that pulled me in.

As I turned a corner an old gay man smiled at me and said "they're real!" I didn't know what he meant... until I got to the end of the next block and then I laughed out loud. The very beautiful Samba dancers on stage were indeed real :-).

I only got about 5 minutes of this on tape using my cell phone (awesome that you can do that btw) but these guys and gals were rock'n when I showed up and continued to rock, hard and non-stop for the next 45 minutes. If the cameria is jumping up and down a lot, well it's impressive that you can see anything at all because I was dancing until I almost passed out! I have not seen anyone rock this hard, this long my entire time in Portland, Oregon. My hat is most definetly off (litterally, I was so sweaty from all the dancing) to The Lions of Batucada.