Portland

Another Post! Crazy right? Clayton took a different position at his work that requires more time from him. (Is that possible?) I have found posting at night fulfills my daily requirement of adult contact on those day when I don't work and find my life consumed with dishes, laundry, homework, doctors apts, soccer, judo, fighting, teasing, screaming, laughing(at mostly BAD jokes) and all of the other duties that come with motherhood. I'm not complaining just looking for that link to the outside world!

These are some pictures from our tenth anniversary spent in Portland. The city where we met. I love this town and it is definitely in the running to be the permanent residence of this family some day. We only stayed for 1 night but we had so much fun. We stopped at 2 kitchen stores and were in heaven. Maui doesn't even have a Williams Sonoma, sad right?
We lost track of time in Powells books and emerged 2 hrs latter feeling like kids that had just had their run of the candy store! We're nerds I know but anyone that has been to Powells would agree. We took a tram ride up to the hospital to see the view and take a picture of the hospital. I was given explicit instructions from Breana to take a picture of where she was born. My favorite thing of course was diner. There were so many places to choose from we split it up. We had an amazing experience at Paley's place. The sweetbreads were awesome and the P.B.J. dessert was so good. We also ate at another place. I don't remember the name but it called it's self a dineraunt and was a throw back to 1950's era diners. It was pretty good and I really liked my fried cheese curds with green tomato jam.
We had so much fun I can't wait to do it again. We decided 1 night at a time might be a good way for us to travel. We didn't have enough time to spend too much money!