Quick trip to Portland

Last Sunday there was a Gear Up for Baseball event at the Nike employee store in Portland.  (Thank you, Janet for continued access...our lives wouldn't be the same without you.) Steve and I decided it was a great reason for us to make a quick trip to Portland before our lives get taken over by baseball.  We left Sunday about 11:30 am, and drove straight to the store. The event itself was pretty cool.  There were a ton of people, it was impossible to push a cart through that place.  While the free popcorn and smoothies held the kids attention, the DJ and raffles held Steve and mine.  (We didn't win anything.) But Steve made a contact with a Nike event planner, so hopefully we will be seeing a Krush hitting booth at the event next year.  We chose to do our shopping the next day.  (That is an entire post of it's own.)

After the shopping was done, we wanted to find something for the kids to do to get their energy out before the car ride home.  We've taken them to the zoo and the children's museum, but had not taken them to the Forestry Discovery museum, so we decided to give it a go.  It turned out to be super fun.  Funny thing is was, we let the kids skip school on Monday, so Steve made the kids read about the exhibits to us, since they weren't in school.  This way they could at least learn, something.  I guarantee if they were given a choice between the two, it would be reading off facts at a museum...every.time. 

So here it is...our weekend, in pictures.

The train outside of the museum.

Tree planting, tree cutting machine simulator thingy, and a smoke jumping simulator...oh, and my smoke jumping boyfriend.

A big machine, some reading, and some rafting.

Exhibits, weirdos, Steve climbing in logs, and Steve climbing in trees.

As these guys are getting older it is getting easier to pick up and go to do things like this.  I look forward to many more adventures, in fact, we might just take off and do it again this weekend...who knows. 

Picture from the car on the way home.  It was 61 degrees when we were leaving Portland, and absolutely gorgeous out.  It was beautiful to get to see the mountains on the way home.  All in all it was a great trip...can't wait to do it again.