Portland

Last week we gave some friends a ride to the airport which is an hour away and since we were right in Portland we decided to make a day out of it!

Eating breakfast at Sherri's-- Oregon's version of Village Inn, only not as good.

After buying some new furniture at Ikea, we went to Powell's City of Books.

And of course, several people from Greenpeace were on every corner getting ready to pounce on anyone that walked within 10 feet of them.

(But we hate the planet so we avoided them nicely)

Anyway...

We had told our friend who manages Powell's that we were coming and look what we found when we got there!!

So of course we had to get a picture!

What's that? You see some weird green blob behind me?
Oops.
Ok, ok, we may or may not have been standing in front of a green screen inside the store

But Powell's City of Books was SO cool!!
It is the largest independent new and used book store in the world and is filled with 5 floors of these bookshelves.
Oh, and it takes up a WHOLE city block.
So cool.

We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves and bought a few cheap books to add to our library.
After Powell's we went to OMSI, the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry.
It's mostly set up for kids but they had some cool stuff, including but not limited to:

Astronaut head shots

The 3rd most complete T-Rex named Samson.

And also an exhibit of baby development at every stage of pregnancy.
It was like Body Worlds but only with fetuses.
It was very cool and kinda creepy.
We ended up spending 4 hours at OMSI and still didn't get to see and do everything.
It was a cool place, but is probably a lot more fun with kids.