Oregon Trip Pictures (1st 3 days)

At the airport. I am just impressed that in the last couple years the kids are very good at navigating airports and train stations with a backpack and a suitcase pulling behind them. It's a good skill to have but also shows that they get to travel quite a bit.

We arrived in before Hotel check-in so we first went and had lunch at a place called shut up and eat. It was very tasty. We went to the hotel after buying groceries and they weren't ready, as we were still early. So we went and had ice cream at a place called 50 Licks.

After resting for a bit at the hotel, we went over to the Science Museum. Daddy had not been able to join us there since our very first trip and this time we were also going to tour the submarine there. So that was something new on our visit there. We have been to this science museum three times.

For dinner on our first night we went to Old Town Pizzeria, which is the haunted Pizzeria we went to last time we were here. It was one of the things the kids really wanted to do as a repeat thing. The next morning I took the kids to the Oregon Zoo. Isabel is larger than a sun bear.

The other thing the kids wanted to repeat was going to the IRA Keller fountain which is a multi-level series of waterfalls and pools that everyone plays in. When we were here last time, 2 years ago, we went there twice. I think we will probably end up back here a second time this visit as well. It's free, it's close, and they love it.

Monday evening we join dad's boss and her husband and two kids that are the same age as Isabel at a pool hand water park that is near their house. Their kids do swim team in the summer and Isabel was having a good time racing with them. We ate at the food carts that we're just down the road from this place. Food carts are a big thing in Portland.

Tuesday was what I called nature day. We first went to the Vista house which kicks off a h

Tour through the Columbia River Gorge. There is a whole bunch of waterfalls and valleys and Dells that you can go check out. We only went to Vista house which has amazing views from the top. Then we went to two waterfalls

This is LaTourell waterfall. It is a waterfall we visited two years ago and wanted to take the kids back again. You can get right down into the waterfall. Last time we were right by it but there is a lot more water this time and so I wouldn't let them get too close because it was blowing really hard and fast. But they did get down into the creek a little further down to play. Just can't keep these kids out of water.

This is the kids at the top of multonomah Falls. Molton Oma Falls is a huge tourist attraction. It is considered the second tallest year-long running waterfall in the United States. It is a two and a half mile hike round trip to go to the top and back. We did this hike three years ago and by we I mean Henry and I made it to the top Isabel and Andy only got half way. She was a bit scared at that point to go any higher so she didn't but this time she was bound and determined to make it to the top. I didn't tell them though that the top isn't very exciting and all of the amazing views are actually from the bottom. But at the top there is a stream that they played in for quite a bit and got their shorts all muddy.

 And here is a picture of the 3 of us from the bottom. Trying to get a picture of the entire waterfall and the bridge in it.

 This was Isabel treat at the end of The Falls. This cookie is as big as her face.

 On Tuesday night we went to the international test Rose Garden. I let her use a camera and she probably took over a hundred pictures of roses until I finally took it away. She was also having her brother pose and take pictures of him. I have yet to look at them.

Isabel with her daddy at the international test Rose Garden. He wasn't so sure about my pic for an evening activity but once we got there and he saw how many roses there are and the Beautiful grounds I think he changed his mind. It was a bit frustrating trying to get there during rush hour time butt once we got there we had a very nice and relaxing time. Then we took the kids to the playground in that Park area to play at and finally took them to the Oregon Holocaust Memorial. We gave them a bit of a history lesson and read everything there and after we were all thoroughly depressed from all of it we decided we had to go have ice cream at Salt and Straw.

It took awhile for these photos to upload so not sure if I will have time 22 Henry's blog post this morning before we leave. I do not have my laptop along with me so it is just easier to voice all of the words but sometimes it has a hard time understanding me so hopefully everything makes sense.