Here we are in Portland!
But our first stop was for a Thanksgiving Dinner at Denny's. It felt just like we were in a holiday movie...the one where the turkey gets all burned up and the entire family has to go out to dinner instead =)
New York isn't the only place with a Macy's Thanksgiving Parade...
Portland Macy's has their own little version.
Enjoying the parade
Even Santa made it the parade!
And just for Mr. Darron, I took this picture...
That's a lot of Ralphie's! =)
After the parade, we did a little walking to Chinatown.
But it wasn't very exciting, so Derek started looking for a new place to check out.
Where to next, hon?
So we did a little walking and found this cool mural
It is a weird place, fun, but definitely strange...hmmm...maybe that's saying something about why we love it so much!
We jumped in line with some others for a delicious treat...
Portland's famous VooDoo Donuts!
The motto here is..."Good things come in pink boxes"
Look at all those crazy toppings!
And here's our very own VooDoo Dozen...when you order a VooDoo Dozen, they pick them for you, and we were quite pleased with their selection.
Once we had our donuts, we enjoyed a little Black Friday shopping around town. I especially enjoyed the shopping because Oregon is completely TAX-FREE! That's right, no tax on any purchase, yay! In the midst of our day we opted for a movie matinee and then onto a little more shopping.
Once night fell, we headed to Pioneer Square, along with 10,000 other people for the Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony.
Beautiful Christmas Tree
Here we are with the tree, although you can't see it very well.
You've probably heard about this tree ceremony...as it turns out, this ceremony was the target of a terrorist attack over a year in the making. Thankfully, the FBI caught on to it back in 2009 and had been stringing the plotter along. He had a van of explosives near the ceremony, but they had planted him with a fake detonator, and as soon as he attempted to set off the explosives, they arrested him. We had no idea that anything was going on until we heard it on the news back in our hotel room. Talk about scary! Every time I think about it, I get chills. Praise God that the attack was prevented and 10,000 plus lives were saved, including ours. We are so incredibly thankful!
Saturday morning, we were headed home and decided to take a little detour to stop at Multnomah Falls.
It is gorgeous!
I really wanted to make the short climb to the bridge, but it was freezing and I was getting wet from the wind blowing the falls as it was, so this was as close as I came. Maybe next time I'll get to make that climb.
And here we are with Mark and Tif for one last picture at the waterfall. I'm so glad we got a chance to spend a few days in Portland with such great friends...we have so much to be thankful for!
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