Day 12 - Portland

On the road again this morning and on our way to Portland. We are all getting very into Harry Potter on the audio book and got through at least 3 chapters before our lunch stop at Kalama. Brief stop for lunch and then back in our car & arrived at Portland about 2pm. Checked into our hotel and then back in the car to explore. We headed to Washington Park and had a look around the International Rose Garden which has 10 000 rose bushes!! It was really  pretty and smelled much better than it has the last 3 hours in our car!! 😬

We saw the cutest, tamest squirrel wandering around. It looked like it would have eaten out of our hands but we didn't have any food!!

Next off to Pittock Mansion to see how the other half live!! Beautiful  house and spectacular views of the city.

Then a drive down 23rd avenue which is filled with cafes and restaurants and apparently the best donut shop and second best ice cream shop in America. Of course we had to try it and I have to say the sea salt caramel was pretty special! 

Did things a little backwards. Had these amazing ice creams and then went and had some yummy Mexican for dinner. We did then walk past the donut shop-luckily for me it was closed!! Our final stop was at Powell's, the biggest bookstore in the world- it was huge!! I could have stayed there for ages!!

Back to our hotel for a bit of downtime to plan tomorrow's adventure. Stay tuned!!