food is probably one of our very favorite things, and portland is known for having some pretty good food carts. so with the help of a fabulous portland food blogger who actually e-mailed me with some suggestions (thank you, amy!!), we went and found a pod. we were kind of in a hurry, so we just hit up the first place we could find, but it was still so good! nick got a lamb gyro (i had to teach him how to pronounce gyro, first ;)) and loved it! normally i play it safe and go for burgers... there was even a mac and cheese cart i really wanted to try. but i decided to go outside my comfort zone and try a shredded pork pot pie with yam (?), caramelized onions and red pepper flakes... um, SO good! there were a million more places i wanted to try, so we will definitely be going and scouting out more pods/carts every time we go back.
next we had to try voodoo doughnut. we decided to go during lunch-time to avoid crowds, and it totally worked. we were both kind of skeptical... figured they were mostly just hype. but they were surprisingly good! i don't think i would wait in a huge line for any doughnut, but i was willing to wait a couple of minutes for these ones.
after that, gray was starting to get tired, but we still wanted to play. so we went to the omsi (oregon museum of science and industry). along with food, we love museums of all sorts, and this is nick's favorite kind. we went to the planetarium (which gray loved), an imax (which he slept through) and then made our way through the mythbusters exhibit where we threw playing cards as fast as we could, successfully pulled the tablecloth out from under dishes & found out i balance MUCH better than nick. :) whew! long sentence...
after we were done playing tourist, we headed over to tillamook to stay with auntie ev, auntie ann and grammy and thank them all profusely for the van! they spoiled us rotten with incredible clam chowder, apple pie and comfy beds. they are amazing :)
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