A typical Portland sight-seeing location is Pittock Mansion, but despite living here for 18 years (and hosting numerous visitors), I had never been there!
Since I am a big fan of "intentional living," I purposefully planned a date in August to make a fun field trip for all of us.
Pittock Mansion is on a large parcel of view property above Portland. It was built by Oregonian (newspaper) owner Henry Pittock and his wife Georgiana. I thought it was interesting how they each individually came across the country by wagon trains, and how Henry started as a lowling at the Oregonian and worked up to be owner in only a short time. He later was a successful businessman in the booming late 1800's.
Sedric stayed with grammae and papa after Sunday Mass, since this field trip was not exactly geared to an active 4-year-old boy. ;o)
beautiful view |
After our visit to the Mansion, I did another Portland first...I ate at a real food cart! I seriously cannot believe I have never done this, since not only is Portland famous for food carts, but I am famous for eating. ;o) We choose a pod on Alder, and while Marcus was getting the kids their food at a Grilled Cheese cart, I chose "Steak your Claim" for their outrageous fries and house-cured pastrami. Bunny chose a neighboring Mac & Cheese cart.
(if you look real closely, you can see all the homeless people in the background...another famous Portland experience) ;oP |
As if all THIS wasn't fun enough, we ended our trip with a visit to Finnegan's toy store:
Joe and I have definitely eaten a food truck lunch on those same steps!
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ReplyDeleteI love Pittock Mansion!!! I hope you did too!!!
ReplyDeleteI can't believe how much the children have grown! You do such cool activities with the kids! Do the trips to the toy store result in purchases?
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