PORTLAND!
We arrived into Portland on Wednesday and made our way right to the Pearl District for the famous food cart pods for lunch. After perusing the many different carts, we settled on The Grilled Cheese Grill....The jalapeno popper sandwich was awesome!
The homeless population was quite a shock to the kids, and to Mark and I also, with all the city parks filled with make shift shelters. After shopping, eating and walking miles, we were pretty tired so we had an early night in back at the hotel.
WASHINGTON
Yesterday we drove north to Mount St. Helen's National Park. It was a fantastic drive. I don't think we have ever seen surroundings quite as green! The weather was beautiful, so volcano viewing was great!
It definitely looks nothing like the ash covered devastation that I remember from news coverage in 1980!
We were then on to Seattle. It seems that every one of our trips is not complete until we stay in one hideous hotel. The first night in Seattle was that night. It was too late in the day to find something else, so we were stuck. We didn't want to take our shoes off or touch anything, the air conditioning sounded like an air compressor turning on and off all night long and it was still about 1000 degrees in the room! I did find us a MUCH better hotel for the second night.
We visited Pike Place Market where we watched the fish mongers throw a few fish around checked out the chewing gum wall! Ick!
We caught Rose actually looking out for her little brother in the busy marketplace.....
The EMP Museum which is a pop culture museum that had some very fun exhibits like Star Wars, Nirvana, Jimi Hendrix and Chuck Jones of Looney Toons fame.
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