Day 1- We started a little before noon. Packed food! And started on the road. A long drive, around three hours. Halted at Mount Saint Helens. A volcano observatory! Beautiful scenarios and landscapes! We watched a short video on the devastation that happened in 1980! And how that affected and changed the landscape of what's today known as a national monument.
Then drove out another hour plus a hour to reach the hotel in Portland!
Day 2- Started our day at Starbucks with coffee and snack sized breakfast!
Then debated our plan - either to wait and have lunch before we hit the road for a 40 minute drive to the Bridal Veil Falls, or to start off to the falls and find something on the way. While I wasn't sure of what we would find on the way, we wandered around downtown. Right then was a gloomy weather with light showers. Still wondering what to do! We stopped by downtown pioneer square. Clicked a few pictures.
Ah! Plan was made- Chinese to go! Picked up some Chinese food and drove to the falls. It was a short trek of less than a mile, but strep and narrow for the parents. A beautiful falls in the end!
Then drive out, by chance found a scenic location called Vista House. Before stopping there, quickly stopped to fill our tummies.
On the return to the hotel, again stopped by downtown Portland, a mall, I wanted to do some shopping, not to forget it's a tax free state!
Me on a shopping spree.
