Sorry I haven't posted for a little while here! It's really hard trying to post on my phone and they finally have a computer in the lobby!

So we are in Troutdale, a suburb (I guess) of Portland. Yesterday we went into Portland and visited the Experimental Rose Garden, the Pittock Mansion, a food truck pod, and Powell's Bookstooooooore.

The Rose Garden was amazing. It was created in 1917 and has over 600 species of roses! (that's 10,000+ plants!)

The roses were all different shapes and sizes and colors and smells. They even had one that smelled just like Neil Diamond!! 

Powell's was amaaaazing! They had four floors of books with about a million books per floor (totally guesstimating that number by the way). I spent a lot of time in the Gold Room- sci-fi and fantasy, the Purple Room- Literature, the Orange Room- children's lit. 

They even had Carl!

What a cutie!