Portland Day Trip

Yesterday I got an early start. I drove down to Tacoma to pick up my old roommate Katherine (Her kids got to stay home with their dad, who is on his Christmas break from school). We loaded up into my car and then kept driving all the way down to Portland. It's not really that far, but a three hour drive in each direction can still be pretty daunting. Traffic wasn't nearly as bad as I had expected from everyone's warnings to me, and we made it to downtown Portland ahead of schedule. I can neither deny nor confirm the rumors that I drove in a bus lane while I was trying to figure out where to park in front of the Bankcorp building.


Melissa, another of our roommates from college, left work early and came down to meet us. We spent a really nice day going to the mall, having lunch together, driving around Mel's old childhood haunts to get a tour of Portland, and then we got to meet Melissa's family. She's got four kids, which is pretty hard to believe until you're reminded of the fact that three of them are triplets. All I have to say about that is WOW. I'm amazed that she and her husband are able to manage with their 5 year old autistic son and three 2 year olds.They're all absolutely adorable and sweet, and Katherine and I enjoyed spending time around them and getting hugs and cuddles throughout the afternoon.



We left Portland in the evening and headed back up to our neck of the woods. Since it seems like it gets dark here sometime around noon in the winter, it was dark the whole way home, but the roads weren't that bad. All in all, it was a really nice day off.

-Amy