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The day started out with “What shall the Dansie’s eat for breakfast?”. I knew that The Original Pancake House originated in Portland, OR, so I thought it would be fun to eat at, The Original.

I’ve never been to the one that is in Salt Lake City, so it would be sort of new experience. We got there and the wait was around 45 minutes.  NO way was I going to wait that long for 2 eggs, so we decided to drive around and find another place.

Find another place we did:

Nothing special.  But I did sense that my food had somewhat of a golden touch added to it.

After breakfast it was time to visit, Multnomah Falls.

I wanted to get a photo of April and Austin on the bridge, so I stayed behind while they hiked up the trail to the top. Meanwhile, I just took photos of moss.

If you look hard enough you can see them.

See? They look so enthused.

They had to hike back, so guess what I did? You guessed it. More photos of moss.

Somehow we lost April, so me and Austin decided to be woodland creatures.

After our adventure at Multnomah, Ape drove us to Troutdale, OR to McMenamins Edgefield. Read about it here or here. I didn’t realize they were such a large operation, until right now. But, who cares? They served beer and that what we were looking for.

We took at walk around the grounds, before finding a place to eat. I’m sure this place looks awesome in the summer time.

We weren’t really all that hungry when we arrived. But, we did want to check out the beer, so we hit up their brew pub. While waiting for our food and treats, portraits happened.

Me and Austin couldn’t decide what flavor of beer to try, so we decided to get the sampler.  This is where I discovered that I really love dark beer. Why it took me so long to discover this, I do not know.

Then, nonsense happened.

We did decide to order a pizza.

Done and done!

Day Three coming up soon.

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Hi folks. It is now time for the recap of my recent trip to Portland, OR with Austin to visit April (Ape) a week before she moved home to SLC, UT. These posts will be word/picture heavy. Consider that your warning.

Friday, February 4, 2011

It was Austin’s first time riding in a plane. You would think I would have taken some self portraits of this event, but I didn’t. Just imagine us looking like idiots with plane seats in the background and that’s probably all you’re missing.

We arrived in Portland, OR around 9:30 AM.  Since Portland has an awesome rail system (needing a car in Portland is not really necessary), we hopped a ride on the MAX. Then I remembered about my camera and we starting shooting the standard thumbs up and weird faces photos.

Then normal looking ones.

Austin wanted to show off that he was able to fit his own pillow in his carry on bag. Pillows are important things in the Dansie family. But, so are magazines that have anything to do with diesel/dirt bike engines, as it is clearly evidenced in this photo.

After our ride on the MAX, Ape came and picked us up at the rail station. I can’t remember what station it was, and I’m sure you don’t really care either. I just know we stood in a Trader Joe’s parking lot for 20 mins, because Ape had to finish watching an episode of Dexter. Priorities.

Ape took us back to her place where we proceeded to have a conversation that went a little something like this:

What do you want to do? I don’t care, what do you want to do? Do you want to go eat breakfast? Sure I guess. Where? Let’s go to that one place down the street. Is that okay? Yeah sure. Oh! Hey Ash! Look what I got you!

Ape hooked me up with some awesome pants. By awesome I mean they are red skinny corduroy pants from The Gap. She bought these on clearance for $8 (regularly $59.50). Since Ape works at Gap she hooks me up when things go on clearance. But, if you’re patient, you can find deals like this too! Don’t ever-ever-ever buy things full price at Gap. UNLESS, you have a coupon or they have a sale going on.  Gap always-always-always ALWAYS puts their clothes on sale. Also, if you shop at Gap stores you NEED to have their rewards card. It’s a must. I earned $260 in rewards last year (and paid $0 in interest). *Steps off the soap box. Well, in this case it’s a stool in the bathroom.

Did you want more photos of my red pants in the bathroom?  Thanks for asking, cause I’m going to show you.

How about an animated GIF of them in action?

After our sisterly nonsense ended, we finally went out for breakfast at a diner down the street. I can’t remember the name of the restaurant right now. The last time we went there someone lost their phone in the edges of the seat and Ape was scared it was going to happen again. Ahhh here we go. With the help of Google maps, you can see where we ate. Nothing special, just a diner where you can do things like this:

Afterwards, we decided to make our way to downtown Portland.  We hopped on the MAX at the Lloyd Center and these photos happened:

April took us to the Pioneer Square (which is by the mall she works at).  We spent a couple hours shopping and it drove Austin nuts.  But, more photos happened:

There is a statue in Pioneer Square that holds an umbrella. This is where the BEST PHOTOS of the trip happened.

I was a little too short for a nose pickin’.

Our destination was Powell’s Books, “The largest used and new bookstore in the world”. If you travel to Portland and you like books you MUST go to this book store. The place is HUGE.

We spent an hour or so browsing books.  I bought Jamie Oliver’s cookbook. If you  haven’t tried any of his recipes, then you’re missing out.  His dishes are super easy to cook and they taste fantastic.

We then decided it would be fun to not take our original train back to April’s place, so we walked around Portland for a bit.  By walked around, I mean we were lost. During this time we were trying to figure out how to get back to the MAX, but we were all sorts of confused.  It wasn’t all that bad though.  We got to walk around more of Portland and China Town (which there are no pictures of…sorry).  We did make our way down to the train station and figured things out.  In the meantime photos happened:

We finally made our way back to Lloyd Center and went back to April’s place for a bit.  We found a sushi place for some fish and Austin was nice to us and treated us to dinner.

After that we went home and had a Dansie Family party.  Whatever that means.

Day two coming up when I’m not lazy and blog about it.

(For more photos of us in Portland, CLICK HERE)

Edit:

Day Two here.

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