...and I Ain't Got Nobody

After several hours of catching up, eating leftovers, and watching movies and Robot Chicken episodes, Jenn and I decided to head out to Voodoo Donuts Too... at 10:30 on a Saturday night. As we headed towards downtown, we noticed several police cruisers with their lights on and officers directing some sort of traffic off of the main road... and then we saw that they were bicyclists; naked bicyclists. 

Portland Naked Bike Ride 2011

I forgot that the end of June brings on throngs of thongs via naked folk on bikes. Last year a couple of friends and I were standing outside of my apartment building when all of a sudden hundreds of bicyclists emerged from the dark of night... At least when they surprised me this year there were only a dozen or so, but still the whole thing is intriguing. See, it's not very warm at the end of June in Oregon. I wonder if they do that on purpose, so as to discourage certain bodily responses within the swarm of bare skin rolling down the street.

But anyway, we got to Voodoo Too... I didn't really consider how busy it would be with the downtown location closed for renovations. Apparently Jenn anticipated the line stretching out the door and around the back half of the building, but I did not. I also didn't realize what a tourist attraction it was; well dressed folk taking pictures of each other in front of the building, alongside the delivery vans, and inside the small building. Facebook received dozens of uploaded photos as we waiting in line next to excited women who saw Voodoo Donuts on the Food Network recently. 

Voodoo Dozen +
our favorites...

After half an hour or so the uber tourist Food Network folk had enough and left, since we hadn't even made it into the building yet. But we certainly didn't have anywhere special to be, so why leave now? Which is what brings us - an hour and ten minutes later - to the front of the line, still deciding on how many donuts we want and which ones to choose. So many choices. So we let them make it for us. VooDoo Dozen, handpicked by the counter guy... You'd think that with so many possiblities that we'd get 13 different donuts, right? Apparently not. He was rather unimaginative and we got duplicates of chocolate glazed, coconut chocolate glazed, sprinkles, and blueberry cake. Lame. At least Jenn got her favorite, Grape Ape. I had to purchase an additional maple bar just to get one (NEVER ask if they would put in your favorite; they won't) Luckily, I had church with the Youth Mission Team in the morning, and they made short work of the half a dozen that bored us into not eating them the night before.

$5 5-Gallon Bucket
of Voodoo Donuts!

If that's what you get by ordering the VooDoo Dozen, I'm just gonna get a $5 Bucket of donuts next time. Last time we did that, we got over 60 donuts, and plenty of crazy good ones too!