#302 - PORTLAND! Day 2

busy day... this morning was a little bit warmer, i think it was in the upper 20's... geez. no snow, because there was no rain, but anywhere we went with standing water there was ice. like in the parking lot of the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry:
okay, it was just a little bit of ice, but still exciting.
here are some shots i took outside of the museum. the museum itself was pretty fun, of course, as in any museum you have to pretend you're a kid again so i ran to any exhibit that was "hands-on." their main exhibit was about fear, so that was kinda neat, although it was a friday so we were in the museum with a busload (probably more) of school-kids.


man, just about any outside shot looks cool and unique huh? i mean, i'm sure it looks pretty commonplace to anyone from the mainland, but it was cool to me. oh this picture below is me in front of a mural. it was kind of in the corner and didn't look very special, but there was a stool right in front of it just begging to be sat on... so i did... and here's proof.
this is the sunset over the williamette river, not the prettiest of rivers, but still kinda cool to view the scenery along both sides of the river (the museum is on one side, and the day after we went to the market on the other side).
so we probably spent the most time at the museum at this infra-red camera. not sure really why it was so much fun... but it was. and that's just it.
along the river outside the museum was a bike/jogging trail that went along a good length of the river, but it was fricken' freezing outside! i have no idea why anyone would want to run in that weather, i mean, run yes, because you don't want to stand still, but then the cold air would be blasting you in the face... hello snot-sicles. but there were a lot of people on the trail so i guess you get used to it?

went for dinner at saburo's. i know, a japanese place in oregon? but it was really good, and super popular, people start lining up in the cold a half-hour before the place even opens.
and we did too, so i had some time to snap shots of the streets...
check out the size of the sushi! geez, it was so good though.
and that's only one plate, i didn't get a picture of the second...

to cap off the night we took a walk to the video store to get some wii games... along the way we saw a playground, so what the heck... day 3 - coming soon...