Saturday, July 27, 2013

Portland "Vacation"


The trip was useless, and we never ended up going camping or kayaking. However, it was still a chaotic mess that was firmly in the fun zone.  

There was mini golfing in a black-lit pirate world, shopping for 8 types of rootbeer in the new soda pop and candy shop downtown, visiting one of the largest collections of mummies,

Watching Hubble at the OMNIMAX, food-nomming at the Montage, food carts, & Roxy, waterfall hiking, a handicap hotel room, morning chai in a rose garden, asian market and alternative store shopping, and lots of driving on back roads. :)





We finally visited the Vista House! Known throughout our dating years as "The UFO House." Jeff had
to admit that the view, at least, was pretty awesome.



















Due to complications and our own inability to ever have a good camping trip, we headed home a day early. But, we drove along the first part of Highway 30 and hiked to my favorite waterfall! It was great fun. ^_^ We even stopped by the Vista House again to check out the inside. I never realized that your could go up on top of it!














 
















Gettin his edjamacation on

Coming home, we entered some kind of huge smoke/ dust cloud! When we stopped at the rest stop, you could feel heat radiating from that direction ...very the world ended while we were distracted-y. Put an interesting tone on the middle part of our journey. Turns out there were some pretty big fires up around Goldstone (Gladstone?).

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