The Pascoal Family Virtual Scrapbook: Portland Days 1 & 2

We're in Portland this week for Drew's work. He had to be here Mon - Thurs, so we tacked on an extra couple days of vacation and all came along. Portland's a beautiful city!

So far, since Drew's been working most of the time, Maria's been out and about with the boys. Yesterday, we went to visit Drew's cousin Bart and his wife Lisa and their 3 sons, Jacob, Anthony and Lincoln. Anthony was our ring bearer at the wedding! My how he has changed! He said he remembers being in the wedding. That's so cool!

There is a great park right next to Bart & Lisas, so we all went out there yesterday. It has a really cool water feature with a flowing little pond, and a big area with sand at the end. Kids were getting very messy and very into the action! The park had a red-rope climbing structure similar to one by our hosue, which is Aiden's absolute favorite. He calls it a Spiderman web, and always climbs right up to the top. Well this one was even BIGGER than the one at home...and he STILL went to the top!

Jeremy had a little mishap back at Bart and Lisa's house. He decided to try to ride the ride-on car down their stairs to the playroom. That didn't work out so well for him. But he is one tough little guy! After a couple minutes of crying, and some nasty rug-burn down his nose, he said "all better" and tried to go get the car to drive it again. Needless to say, that was the end of the car driving for that day.

Spiderman

Spiderman Jr.

Jeremy's Scrape...boo-boo

Today, Maria and the kids went to the Portland Children's Museum. It was just perfect for the boys' ages. They could do all of the activities all by themselves. It's great when they can just get in on the action without any help. They started in the "Water Works" area, where cool mechanical devices allowed you to do all sorts of fun dumping and pouring of water. Then they toured around the WHOLE museum. We didn't leave until we had visited each and every exhibit. AND they didn't want to go at the end. Aiden asked if we could "stay for a really really long time next time".

On our way back to the hotel, we hit an Oregon staple, Burgerville. That place is more popular than In-n-Out at 12:15! Can you imagine MORE crowded than In-n-Out at lunchtime?! Well, imagine it. We don't have to imagine, cuz we were there. There wasn't one parking spot in their lot, so we had to park next door and walk over. But the bonus is that there were balloons EVERYWHERE inside, and the kids were in heaven. It was hard to distract them from the balloons long enough to eat their Burgerville cheeseburgers.

Well, that's it so far. Lots of fun stuff. Can't wait til Drew is done with his work stuff so he can join us more. But he says it's been informative and good so far, so we're thankful for that.

Train Station