Down Town Portland

Every year "Naval vessels from the United States Navy, U.S. Coast Guard and the Canadian Maritime Forces arrive from around the world for a four-day visit to the City of Roses."

Landon was so pleased that Sweetie shared her ritz crackers with him.
They had big fences up for security reasons. We had planned on touring the ships however they were 2 days late getting into port...so instead we watched them come into port.
Each time a ship would come in there would be a smaller ship shooting water into the air to announce its arrival. This one shot out red and white water since it was for a canadian Navy ship. Other shot out red white and blue.
The kids really enjoyed watching the bridges go up to let the big Navy ships come through
This was our 1st time in downtown Portland. I love the architech. It was amazing.
Fernando had a interview with a company near the airport down town so while he was doing that we hopped on the max and went to the mall. I SO would have loved to have gone shopping there with out the kids... :)
The babies first max ride
It was once again raining so here are the kids wating undercover for the max to pick us up
Our last stop was the famous voodoo doughnut. These are so delicious. If you ever go to down town Oregon you HAVE to try them.
After down town we headed back to Erika's house, ate pizza and put the kids to bed. Fernando slept while Erika, her husband and I got in one last game and finished off our virgin strawberry daqueri pina coladas. :) At around 11 p.m. we loaded up our kids in the car and headed to UT. The kids were AMAZING for the drive! They woke up around 7 in the morning and we stopped for breakfast. We didn't stop again in Layton to get free Krispy Cream doughnuts and that was it. We had a wonderful time in UT (though I forgot to get pictures....)even though we were only there for pretty much the weekend....
We went out to go to my niece and nephews baby blessings. They looked SO adorable! I am really glad we were able to be there. It is so fun having a niece and nephew close to Gabby's age! It is hard being so far away from family! Know you are loved and greatly missed!