The restaurant in the hotel looks out onto the Willamette River & a couple of the bridges are visible. This morning during breakfast, the bridge closest to us opened. The traffic was stopped for 10mins but nothing passed through the bridge. How annoying if you were in a stopped car. We headed uptown this morning to check out a funky shop we had seen. It didn't open until 11am so we went into the Target opposite & wasted time in there. This Target also so...

Today we decided to explore the neighbourhoods our waitress from the other night told us about. We started by catching the tram uptown to Powell's Books. This is a massive bookstore selling new & used books. It is 4 levels & takes up an entire city block. They appeared to sell every book you could possibly want including foreign language & audio books. We particularly liked the children's section. There were so many Nancy Drew & Hardy Boys books! ...

This morning for breakfast I ordered a fruit cup & the house oatmeal, exactly as they were listed on the menu. What I got was house oatmeal with a side of sausages. No matter how you say it, fruit cup does not sound like side of sausages. Very strange. Today we explored the Sellwood/Westmoreland area which is a little bit out of downtown Portland. It is an area full of antiques & collectibles and quirky little shops. We caught the bus out there which was...

The taxi picked us up at 8.45am for the 45min drive to the airport in Wenatchee. It wasn't long after we left the snowy surrounds of Leavenworth that we came across orchards full of trees with no leaves. The driver said they were pear trees & Leavenworth was a big pear area. That makes sense as Saint Nicholas was giving the kids gold wrapped pears on Friday night & we tasted the local pears in the street on Saturday. They tasted different to our pears. Cl...