Downtown Portland, OR

Downtown Portland today on the 44 bus. We played at Finnegan's toy store and in the Salmon Street fountain. We crossed the Steel Bridge in a rented surrey pedal-car. Pizza Schmizza. "Peace, love and ice cream"

And the boys got to meet Allie. Woof woof.

Oh yeah, and Marty loves these buildings.

Hit that Oregon Trail this July

It feels like a long time coming when you buy your airline tickets on Christmas break, but here it is July and our epic journey has begun.

Up early for a cab ride to Logan, playing around at KidPort terminal C and plenty of time to catch our flight. Up, up and away -- Boston to Denver then Denver on to Portland PDX.

Thunderstorms over Missouri are blamed for the bumpy ride, but there's plenty of sunshine up here above the clouds.

The boys got pretty excited to finally get their much anticipated plane ride(s), and they made good travellers with their backpacks all loaded with books and crayons and things to pass the time.



Portland at last! We're really excited to see Auntie Ann!

Thomas turns 3

Thomas is 3 at last! Annoyed by having to wait until after Marty's birthday, we celebrated Tom's 3rd b-day with a lovely party and a big tugboat cake. Pictured is the post-party actual- day mini-tug ;)

The stats: Tom is 39.75" and 36 lbs. He's riding his new green Trek 16" bike which Marty passed down to him for his birthday. And he's got a snazzy helmet with blue flames! His favorite color is blue. And he's a "big boy".

Happy birthday big guy ")