Portland ideas for kids?

[georgeharrison]

For some reason, Tman and I are going through a really close phase.  I am loving it and want to be sure to take full advantage of it.  So, I was thinking of him and I getting away for just a couple days.  I found that we can both take the train to Portland for $70/round trip for both of us.  Taking the train would be an adventure, but what could we do for a couple days while we are down there?  Anything fun right in Portland that we could walk to or take transit to (if we take the train)? 

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There are a ton of food trucks right downtown.

Voodoo doughnuts might be fun

Powells books would be cool for him to see too.

[georgeharrison]

We could do a drop-in trapeze class!!! Doesn't that sound awesome?

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Jennlin was just asking about Portland as well

pandce.proboards.com/thread/241316/spend-2-nights-portland

Different age than T-man of course.

If he likes history stuff, the Portland walking tour is really interesting (we're nerds so we loved it), lasted about 2.5-3 hours.http://www.portlandwalkingtours.com/tours/underground-portland-shanghai-tunnels-tour/ I think how "bawdy" the story is depends on your guide. Ours poo-pooed stuff so just begrugingly told stories. But they don't get highly inappropriate, just like how there was a brothel boat on the river that shifted moorings to avoid taxes.

The cooking school is really great, you could take a class together. Saturday market is great, larger than our farmers markets.

OMSI

The food trucks are a lot of fun, and big clusters all over.

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Definitely do OMSI. It was a lot of fun and E loved it.

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Oh, DEFINITELY Powell's. I loved that as a kid, too! Granted, I was a book worm, but color-coded rooms to find things because its so huge? It has its own map? Heaven.

[shevacc]

You can take their light rail system right to the zoo! And it's a great zoo, so I would definitely recommend that. I've never been to OMSI but I loved science museums as a kid. And I agree with Powell's -- love that place!