Portland Coast // Day 7 // Portlandia

(Sigh, because I spent hours exporting all my photos in THE wrong size, I can't do large photos...so it's going to be lame and be small photos for a while.  Plus, I'm slightly disheartened by it, so I should have blogged when I could remember everything, please excuse the lameness and lack of organization.)

Pittock Mansion.  It was closed when we accidentally drove up to it.  But you can walk around for free.  Plus you better do it.

The view was breathtaking. 

We did the most touristy thing possible there.  Voodoo Doughnuts was a must right?

After eating our slightly horrific doughnuts (while they were good, I did feel kind of uneasy about the whole voodoo thing.)

The last few minutes in Portland were spent on the dock.  People watching and letting Aiko get all her jitters out before the flight. 

Luckily, the flight went ok.  Honestly, it can't have been that bad, because I don't remember anything about it...4 months later.  

Wandering Portland

Powell's Bookstore.

I've never been in such a large, eclectic bookstore in my life.  I'm also kicking myself for not purchasing some of the prints either.  They were a smoking deal! 

Floors and floors of books.  

Just a few other photos from our wanderings.

Oh, at one point, I actually said "I was ice cream." (This never happens, EVER.)  Then I realized I really didn't want ice cream, I really wanted a cupcake, which happened to be right next to Ben and Jerry's.  Yes, Yes, I know, we should have gone to a local place, but I was DANG hungry.

So I bought this ultra ridonkulous, delicious cupcake.  Poor brother was exhausted.  He spent much of his time in his Moby which I used every single day.  

Husband, please take a photo of me in this cool alley way, but let's face it, little brother's thighs are the highlight right?!

Like I said, exhausted. 

One of the highlights of Portland (it's even in tourist books.) is their Goodwill.  My oh my, it really is noteworthy.  If my kids weren't super tired and literally screaming, we would have spent hours there.   Super cheap, super new, super leather items everywhere!   There were things on the shelves that would just be scooped instantly in Utah.  Sigh, I'd go back, just to thrift. 

When I was paying, the check out lady asked me where my kids were...because they were the only ones screaming.  Luckily, the husband had taken them out earlier, where they just screamed the whole time in the car, until I got there.  Mama's touch.