Portland was great. I love Portland. The city is amazing, the people are so friendly and so much green everywhere. I don’t remember the last time I went to a major city and saw so much vegetation around. So many trees and parks, it was gorgeous.
The weekend we were there Portland was celebrating is annual festival. The Rose Festival. Good timing our part. The city had a carnival, which we went to and parade, which we watched. Of course we went to the famous market they have in Portland every weekend from March to December. So many neat things. I had to hold onto my wallet so I wouldn’t overspend.
Speaking of which we did spend a little more then we were expecting on this trip. Mainly because we met up with a friend of my BF that he hasn’t seen in a few years and
because he was off work and his wife was pregnant we (the BF and I) decided to pick up the tab for breakfast. We just wanted to be nice. We also bought a new laptop and unfortunately spent a little to much money there to. We had decided on a limit on what we would spend on the laptop but we forgot to discuss the other things, like antivirus, or wireless router. But its all good. We had a total budget of $500 and we spend in total $725.00.. so really we didn’t go that bad with that and we have rearranged our budget to.
On the way home on the Monday we took a detour off the main highway and went up to Mount St. Helen’s. totally worth the trip. It was gorgeous in a scary kinda way. After all that mountain is still an active volcano. It last blew its top in 1980 and left a massive creator in the side of the mountain. All the area around it is still gray from the ash as nothing much can’t
grow there. But it was beautiful and worth the trip for sure. The BF was happy he finally made it out there.
Overall we had a blast on our trip. Like I said above we did go slightly over our budget for the trip but not that bad (all in all about 60 over) and things could have been worse. Portland is a beautiful friendly city and I can’t wait to go back.
I have attached some pictures for you so see. First is of the view of downtown Portland we took on a gondola right to the hospital, next Voodoo Donuts (of course) and lastly pics of Mount St Helens and its creator.