Vacationing with the Taylors - PART 1

This was such a fun time, that I'm going to have to split it into two posts.  This summer we got to vacation with our friends, the Taylors.  The first half of our time together was spent in Portland, showing them some quick highlights of the town.  The kids were just happy to be reunited with their friends.

On the first day we hit up OMSI.  The Taylor family is full of Science geeks, just like ours, so we knew that this was going to be a hit.

Of course the chemistry lab is always a hit!

But the highlight of OMSI was their special dinosaur exhibit.  They had full scale skeletons right next to animatronic dinosaurs and it was quite the sight to take in.  You really got the full picture of what those beasts were like!

The next day, we took a trek downtown to visit Powell's books, which is a Portland landmark.  It is such a huge bookstore and you really could spend hours there.  And the light is so dreamy in the children's section of the store that I want to photograph a session in there!

Finally we hit up the food trucks for lunch.  We had hoped to also go to Voodoo donuts, but the kids were exhausted by that point.  Tired children and sugary donuts is a bad combination...