Wednesday is in the books – and we took Portland by storm! Or as much storm as you can create in 19 hours 😜

After breakfast at hotel in Eugene, Michael wanted to walk out to the patio area. When we did, we saw ducks, lots and lots of ducks. 

We couldn’t figure out why they were just looking at us, and more and more ducks kept coming to us?  Then Leo looked in the stand-up cooler – duck food! They were surrounding us because we were supposed to be serving breakfast 🍳. So we got busy serving duck-breakfast! 

Before we left Eugene, we stopped by Voodoo Donuts for some sweets! (We had planned to go to the original Voodoo Donut in Portland, but our fishing guide told us to plan for a 2-hour wait if we went to the Portland store. Now, we like donuts, but I can’t think of any donut worth waiting in line for for 2 hours!!!)  They opened the Eugene Voodoo donuts last year…. So, we cruised right into the Eugene Voodoo Donuts – no wait at all 🍩🍩🍩

After getting our box-o-sugar, we hit Interstate 5 and headed north. It only took about 10 miles down the road for the donut-monster to strike…

We knew our time in Portland was going to be short and according to every “mom-blog” I researched, we just had to go to the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry…

So, we did 😀

It was really a neat place, kind of a cross between Greensboro Science Center and Discovery Place in Charlotte – and add in a submarine.  Yes, I said submarine – the USS Blueback was docked in the Willamette river behind the Museum!

It was an interesting tour, and I am very thankful that I’m not stationed in a sub! 

Boys loved the sub – although the engine was a little loud

And Mike enjoyed talking to our tour guide – a former sailor on this sub! It was a really neat experience especially compared to the massive size of the USS Midway in San Diego.

Inside the boys got to become astronauts and learned all about the science used in space

Cutest astronauts EVER!
Michael loved the how to become an astronaut videos

Leo liked the gravitational pull experiments – because it was like centrifugal force that he studied at camp!!

The boys (in true boy-style) really liked the  “how do they go” in space exhibit… Especially the water part… 

Leo wanted to know if astronauts got privacy 😂

They liked the giant building blocks

(pay no attention to the woman behind the tower)

Michael liked the experiments about eating and exercise

Leo refused any help on the maze – and was quite pleased with himself when he solved the puzzle 🎉

After we shut the OMSI down, we wanted to experience a Portland original – Killer Burger

We all got in the Rock-n-Roll state of mind (Michael said we were being too silly for him 😝)

(Pretty sure I lost all rock-n-roll cool points by doing the sign for I love you instead of rock-n-roll sign 😜)

But the burgers were awesome!

And we had a great time together

And we are back in the room and relaxing watching the Olympics – well, relaxing, tackling daddy, whatever! 

Tomorrow we leave Oregon and head to Washington for a really full day – starting with Mount St. Helens to Mt. Rainer and then to Seattle.  One more state to go!