Portland was great! The train was fun, a bit of a long time to be sitting but the boys really did a good job. Levi was waving to all the cars we saw and Carlos spent most the trip coloring.

When we got to Portland, we hopped a cab and headed to the Hilton. It was very fancy and we dropped off our bags and headed out to find coffee! I swear, that’s a Starbucks on every corner. Anyhow, we got the coffee and did some shopping at Pioneer Place. Came home, got our swimsuits on and went into the icy cold pool. It was fun, though, we splashed around and gave the boys rides on our backs. We went up to our room again and got ready for bed. We ordered room service (what a luxury!) for dinner and crawled into bed and watched “Over the Hedge” and fell asleep.

This morning we got up and got ready for the day. We packed up all the things and went down to the hotel’s Bistro for breakfast. We took the Max train to Lloyd Center (met a really interesting guy on the train who was from South America, and a former Marine and was in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina and just a really interesting guy). The boys liked watching the ice skaters (and Dee and I got a chance to sit a have a coffee…yeah) and one lady even came over to talk to them about it for a minute. Then they saw the Zamboni cleaning the ice which was a hit. We did a little shopping, got them each an outfit at The Children’s Place and went back to the hotel to get our bags. We stopped off at the Discovery Channel store on the way down to the Amtrak Station to get the boys a cool 3-D dinosaur book that we had seen earlier and then hopped on the Max train again. Dropped us about 7 blocks from the train station and we hoofed it the rest of the way. The boys both fell asleep in the stroller (see last picture) and slept most of the train ride home.

Got back around 8 tonight and my mom was here with Trey…they had a great weekend and he got spoiled. He was happy to see us, but annoyed with Carlos who wouldn’t leave him alone. We put them to bed and they finally got to sleep. I’m beat!