OAKS PARK ROLLER RINK

There are only a couple more weeks to wend your way south to Sellwood's Oaks Amusement Park to take advantage of their preschool skate hour. For the next couple of Tuesdays and Wednesdays (until June 13), bring your toddlers and babies to the roller rink for an hour and a half of truly old fashioned fun. Sure, we had the same hesitation about letting loose a three year-old on wheels, but they tighten the lugs to prevent the otherwise inevitable spills. You are allowed to bring your stroller on the floor, you are allowed to wear your shoes as well, they do a brief lesson, the hokey-pokey, choo-choo train, some sort of funky chicken thing, and they you have milk and cookies. Big hit all around, and for a paltry $4.50. (did we mention that they also bring out their thread worn mascot, Chipper? he is a squirrel, which we only mention because it isn't really clear that the squat fuzzy brown thing with the big head really is.)

LOVEJOY & 23rd GOOD SAM PARKLET

We have heard the Good Sam hospital has a cafeteria that is one of the best kept secrets in NW -- cheap and good -- which spells a review in the near future. We may even elect to have a picnic if the weather is nice at the little parklett next to the bus and streetcar station. Well maintained, a fountain that we are not sure works yet, pretty little trees and a well groomed lawn. By the time you visit inchworm season may be passed, butterfly and mosquito days are right around the corner.