Saturday in Portland

My stepdaughter, Claire, is visiting for a week so we've been having fun. Today we went on the famous Portland Bridge tour, led by my best friend's mom (and all around fabulous woman!), Sharon Wood Wortman.

If you don't already know how amazing the Portland bridges are, get a glimpse of the Broadway Bridge.This is a photo of the Morrison Bridge. I took some great pics but they're stuck in my cell phone. While Steve and Claire went down below the bridge to view the huge gear shifts, Riv and I sat in the booth on top. We had front row seats for the raising of the bridge.

Here's the Steel Bridge - the bottom deck is lifting to let a sail boat through.


Here's our wonderful, old train station.


And then, well, there's nothing like a stupid Red Bull event to draw thousands and thousands of people. We waded through the throngs to watch grown men in getup drive vehicles straight into the river to crash. When we had enough of that, we headed to the famous VooDoo donuts to wait in a thirty minute line for a half dozen. Much more mature!

River was pretty excited to wait with her big sister...


And mama's not cool anymore when the hip girl's around.


You have to appreciate a donut shop with the motto: magic is in the hole. Yep, it's printed on the undies above the counter, too! The girl with the orange hair made sure we walked away with the most popular donuts.


We had to lay them out at home to figure it out. Turns out they're not really for eating, especially if you haven't eaten a regular donut for twenty years, but it was part of our fun Saturday so that's good enough for us.