Weekend in Portland

We had a great time as a family up in Portland this weekend.

Odin handled the train ride up just fine on Friday, and liked playing at his Grandparents' house. We walked around my old neighborhood and Odin enjoyed the sights, especially all the cool things on Hawthorne.

Saturday we went around Pioneer Place and Lloyd Center. Odin is normally stressed out in crowds but this time he liked watching all the people. There was also a show going on in the ice rink at Lloyd Center and Odin seemed to like watching the people skate around.

We also went to Saturday Market as it was closing and looked at all the cool things. There was lots to see and Odin had a good time, but fell asleep a few minutes before we left. We got him some gloves from one vendor for $2, so we wont care if we lose them, and they're quite nice.

Sunday we went to Pioneer Place again to eat before going to Omsi. They had some snow machines going inside, and they had so much stuff in them it really was quite thick like a blizzard. Odin just loved it! It was so cute watching him reach out for the snow and try to play in it. He also had a great time at Omsi, there were lots of things to play with and he had a lot of fun, thought the stuffed Polar Bear scared him at first.

He was so energetic on the ride home. One of the conductors showed us a car that was being kept empty and told us we could take him in there if he got loud or wanted to crawl around a lot. We spend most of the trip in there.

He loves playing with my mom and stepfather (goofy pictures abound, from this trip and the last one -- though I don't have them yet). He was also obsessed with their wood stove. The only problem was that the first night we had him in the same room as us so he woke up every hour to cry, whereas we're normally not in his room so he just goes back to sleep. Mom gave us her den to put him in the second night, and he only cried once according to my stepfather.