Weekend in Portland

As a mini-vacation, we decided to spend a long weekend in Portland. So we booked a room in a nice hotel and treated ourselves to a relaxing time in the city - or at least as relaxing as you can get with a one year old. To help, we paid for a train ticket from Seattle for Grandma Ilvedson and made sure to get a room big enough for the four of us. Donna would get to spend "quality Grandma time" with Anders at the hotel while we puttered about the city.

We did lots of window shopping and enjoyed good food at various eateries such as Saucebox (disappointing food, good drinks), Clyde Common (excellent), Jam on Hawthorne (best corned beef hash ever), Barista, Cupcake Jones, Nicholas Restaurant, and Besaw's.

Barista is an interesting coffee shop where rather than serving coffee from only one roaster, they feature roasters from around the country. So not only do you choose your drink, you choose the roast as well. Yum.

Donna's proud accomplishment for the weekend was teaching Anders that cows moo.

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A fun weekend for all!

- Corinne, Mike, and Anders Rocket

Date: November 16, 2009