Well we are a busy little family! Thankfully the sports are nearly over (sorry boys) and we will have our evenings and weekends back!
This week is all about our trip down to Portland! When Kristi and Matt came to visit, they spent a long weekend down there and we met them downtown for a night. We stayed at a cool hotel called The Vintage Plaza.
Portland is a small city and some people call it "mini Seattle". We are not sure we agree with that... Portland is also very... different. Bumper stickers that say "Keep Portland Weird" and the show "Portlandia" pretty much sum things up! They have lots of great restaurants and coffee, though and it is a cool place to visit.
No trip to Portland is complete without a visit to Voodoo Donuts! OMG I have never even thought of the all the things you can put into or on a donut, but they sure have. Matt had one with Captain Crunch all over it and we had an Elvis Special with peanut butter, bananas and chocolate chips!
We ate dinner at a place that Steve recommended called Deschutes Brewery. He has been to Portland twice on business so we took his word for it and we were so glad we did. The food and atmosphere were awesome.
About 45 minutes from Portland is an avaition museum called Evergreen down in McMinnville. The big draw for this place is that they have Spruce Goose, Howard Hughes' plane. Holy crow that thing is gargantuan and it was cool to actually see it. The man had issues though, because it just borders on ridiculous.
This was a huge aviation and aerospace museum as well. They had some incredible displays and it was interesting to see it all.
We hope everyone is well and our visit with Kristi and Matt is on my next week's entry!
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