Oregon (day four)

Sunday morning was another early morning for us! Bennett was pretty much done with traveling at this point and he made sure we knew it for the rest of the day!  That being said, at some point during our day, Becky said to me, you know in a few years I'm sure all you will remember are the cute pictures from today and you won't remember his attitude ... hopefully she's right! :) 

Okay, so Becky had to work from 5:30 to 10 that morning so she was up and out early, but the rest of us enjoyed a very leisurely morning and fabulous breakfast prepared by Michael.
Here's a couple pictures of their apartment ... notice the awesome painting that Michael did in their new kitchen... I want him to come down and do that to my kitchen!

Eating our wonderful oat flour pancakes and fresh fruit!  Bennett's face is just as happy as everyone else's here! Breakfast was so yummy!

As we were packing up the car to go to church, Bennett discovered that the next door neighbors had toys out front that he really wanted to play with! We however discovered that he could walk down the stairs by himself in an attempt to get said toys!

he reminds me a little of Frankenstein with his arms out front like that!

When Becky got off of work we met her at church. Bennett slept through the whole thing and the priest talked about serving the poor, I really enjoyed it!  After church we took the "long way" home so we could see some beauty ... man oh man ... Oregon is beautiful!

After Becky was nice and clean and "de-coffeed" we took off to get lunch at a "Sprouts" type market close to their house!

Bennett was super happy because he got to be in the car-cart ... for about 15 min. After that I considered leaving him in Oregon... we didn't of course, but I don't think any of us enjoyed our amazingly yummy lunch enough due to the screaming and crying and throwing that was going on at one end of the table... oh well... we'll never see those people in the store again anyways! 

After lunch we drove into Portland to go to Washington Park and see the rose gardens!

We didn't know Portland had a "Sky-fari!" over the freeway! Awesome!

The Rose gardens were beautiful!

We had a great time smelling them and realizing how different roses can smell! One actually has a grapefruit-ish smell to it! (we also really enjoyed all the funny names they have too!)

Becky had the idea to take "prom pictures" by the roses ... their's are great, except not on my camera, here's our prom pictures...

We did lots of exploring and playing to try and keep Bennett happy ... it worked part of the time.

(notice how I am in non of these pictures with my son! Becky was literally saving the boys life by taking him from me!)

We did have the good sense to remember to take a picture together 

... here's the self timer one

... and then the one a person offered to take for us

We took in the view of Portland for a few more minutes and then decided to take off and explore Powell's Books.

Powell's was crazy! I couldn't believe the amount of books that were in one place!  

Bennett loved/hated it! He loved how many books there were, but hated that his mom ruined all his fun because he wanted to rip them all off the shelves! Again, Becky saved the boys life and got him to look at book for about 5 seconds... but it is a really cute picture!

After the bookstore it was time to part ways so we could make it back to the airport ... after a diaper change and a good laugh playing with Becky and Michael in the car, it was time to go :(

We were a little worried about finding our way to the airport, but after a little delay...

... there were signs to guide us there with no problems!

When we stopped to get gas I had to take a picture of the sign for this restaurant

All weekend we had seem them while driving and we both kept saying that it looked like our last name ... we know it wasn't but still, pretty close.

The flight was nothing special, except the Matt and Amy Roloff were on it (the mom and dad from Little People, Big World!)  I couldn't help it, I had to get a picture, but well, I was too chicken (or polite)  to go talk to them!

So, that brings us to the end of our trip... it was so nice and refreshing to just get away and see friends and celebrate love and enjoy beautiful surrounding!

Bye-Bye Oregon! Hope we get to visit you again really, really soon!