Portland - it's like San Francisco and Humboldt County met up to share craft beers and a joint and reminisce about the 90's.
Admittedly, I haven't seen a lot of Portland yet. This was our first real family trip to the city and since we didn't know where to start, we just started at the Portland Saturday Market in the South Waterfront district of Portland, which I knew about because a girl who grew up in Petrolia, (Ryan), sets up a booth here. Apparently this was a good choice. According to our super awesome upstairs neighbors, this is the south waterfront is where all the action happens.
It was 81 deg., but we didn't know there would be a water feature so we had no water clothes for the boys. Once we saw the water feature fountains and all the other kids splashing, there there was no escaping it. The boys wanted in.
After a quick trip to the HoneyBucket (port-a-potty) and a race through the maze of booths, we came back to the water feature, grabbed some ice cream, fish & chips,and delicious orange-lemon juice and let the boys cool off in the water.
We're looking forward to exploring more of the city itself. Unfortunately, that's something we never really took the time to do while we were near San Francisco. It's more fun to explore now that the boys are old enough to enjoy it with us. By the way, we didn't see Ryan's booth. There was just too much going on to search it out on this trip. Maybe next time.
We also heard there's a drive-in movie theater in Newberg (not too far away). Can't wait to check THAT out!!
~Sarah
