First stop, the playground at Washington Park. You have to drive a ways to get there but it's the best park that I know of. And it wasn't super busy. The first time we came here, right after we parked and got out a big ol' school bus pulled up with a bunch of kids.
Aaron loves to rile Mimi up when she's trying to take a picture. He's looking at me while Mimi's taking the picture. Notice his hat on the ground. It's 'always in the way, I can't see your face'. :)
Delaney's just a bit too small to play on the playground. So Papa took care of her.
Next we went to the tram at Daddy's work, OHSU. This tram takes you from the hospitals at the top of the hill to the clinics at the bottom of the hill. Anyone can use it, but it's free for workers. Kinda funny, the only charge one way, going up. But who only goes one way??
Delaney's first ride.
The whole city of Portland.
They are either fixing or building this barge. That was kind of cool.
All of those buildings at the top of the hill are hospitals.
Aaron got a Tram sticker, which he continued to take off his shirt.
This is us going back up the hill. We didn't just ride the tram, we walked to the Old Spaghetti Factory for lunch and then took the tram back up.
Here's a view of the other tram going down and where the tram parks at the top at OHSU.
This is Mt. St. Helens. You can see this, Mt. Hood, and Mt. Adams all from Portland. It's cool to see all three on a clear day, but it's still not the same as Mt. Rainier.
He's just growing up so quickly :tear: ... J/k, he wanted to shave with Papa, different than shaving with Daddy and the electric shaver :)
There goes Mimi again with the roses and Delaney. Too bad I have a lot of junk in the background...
Then we went to the beach again. I, personally, can't get enough of the beach. Whoever said it was only 45 minutes away is sadly mistaken. I think it takes longer to get there. I would love to go there more often. But not by myself with the kids. Too much. AND recently there was a little girl that was a little ahead of her grandmother out here and she was about to be taken by a crazy lady but a runner came and saved her (as did the grandma). She ran but the guy that saved the girl said hey, I'm a marathoner, I can run forever. CRAZY!!! Alas, I love the beach. Copper doesn't mind it, even though she looks worried.
See? She's out there in the water and no one even told her to go out there! Skeet is insane. Dad is wearing a jacket because it was only 60 degrees out there and the water was BUTT cold!!!!
He's building his "sand cups". He's using a Taco Bell cup to make them. TOTALLY forgot his bucket, which I told him we'd take next time, LAST time.
Then Daddy buried his feet in the sand.
Poor action shots, I know. He's trying to jump to get his feet out of the sand.
Miss Thing enjoying some of the sand as well. I didn't really want her to get her butt dirty, but I wanted pictures!
"Hmmmm, what is this stuff on my hand?? I wonder if it tastes good..."
Aaron and Daddy coming back from the beach, which Skeet.
When we were coming out, there was a channel on our way back to the beach in between a sandbar we were on and the rest of the beach. I didn't realize it, but Aaron started wondering his way back to Mimi and he fell into it and tried screaming but his face was under water. His hands were on the bottom, feet floating (his sandals float) and his face was too much in the water. Poor guy!!! So, that's why he's wrapped up in Papa's jacket.
I'm just noticing that blogger is making these pictures a lot darker than they are on my computer screen in photoshop, sorry!
And Delaney playing in the sand. I like how it feels on my feet, too, Delaney!
Last one for today.
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