Portlandia

Fun in Portland

We had the coolest hotel ever…Michael’s pick.  The city of Portland bought the Kennedy Elementary School when the school closed down and was going to be destroyed.  The business group, McMenamins, bought the building later and made it into a hotel named after the school--it looked and felt like my own elementary school.  The old classrooms were sectioned off into 2 hotel rooms.  I’m not sure which subject wing we were in, but we were put in the broom and basket closet…no comments please.  One thing this hotel had that my school did not was 6 BARS, seriously.  We decided to do a pub crawl in our hotel.  We really did have a blast making the “rounds”.  Oregon is extremely proud of their brews and had a very uniquely cool selection.  We were somehow able to eat dinner after the venture and get into the 10’ X 30’ “soaking tub” (Jacuzzi).  We even made it back to the broom closet, but the next morning made us all realize the consequences of that type of fun.  (I’d do it again, though!)

Cruised several Portland districts and did general sight-seeing the next day.  I felt like the day was an overall success when the boys returned from a quick appetizer at a wine bar with the suggestion of one more activity.  We had dinner on a floating restaurant over the Columbia River.  The Deck was a casual, open-air café with some good food and a fun view of tons of sailboats. 

Like I said, we had fun in Portland.

by Mom