We Are Marching to the Madness!

I don't know where you were this weekend, but I know where we were. (I also know where Brad, Court and Ryan were.) We were in Portland. Why were we in Portland? Well, it is March. Which means the Tourney is here. Which means we are wherever the tourney is.

So this year, Brent got tickets to the first and second round games in Portland. It was off to Portland for us.

We left on Wednesday by train. Brent has been wanting to take the train somewhere for a while now. I was indifferent in the matter, so Portland it was. What did I think about the train? Well...you can't be in a hurry. It was about an hour late getting into Portland, which seems to be about normal. It's louder than I expected. But, you can get up and walk around so that's nice. I'd take the train again, but not a long way.

Then Thursday morning dawned and Brent met up with Ryan and a very sick Brad. I met up with a pretty sick Courtney, but we didn't let that slow us down. We shopped and shopped and shopped. Then we took a break and shopped some more. Then we took the boys shopping and then we took a break and shopped some more. It was pretty good. I'm not a huge shopper which means I can do this binge shopping then not have to shop for a long time. Plus, Court and Brad are leaving for Hawaii in...let's see...12 hours, so they needed to supplement their wardrobes.

During one of our breaks from shopping, Court and I got manicures and pedicures. We got the new OPI gel nail polish that is suppose to last FOREVER so we'll let you know. Oh, and the funnest quote of the day. When the people asked us if we wanted to get our manicures done at the same time as our pedicures (to which we said yes), Court said, "I will feel like I'm on a tv show if we do that." It was actually kind of hard. It was hard to remember what you could move and what you couldn't. But it was like being on a tv show. If only someone had done my hair!

We, however, did take one morning off from shopping to go to Multnomah Falls. It was a rainy, overcast day so the pictures, I think at least, turned out AWESOME!

There was a lot of water coming down the waterfall because of all the rain we've been having. While everyone else in the country's been having summer-like weather, we've been stuck in winter.

We took some pictures at the base of the waterfall...

We walked up to the bridge and took some pictures. (Notice all the water on Brent's glasses. I don't think it was rain, I think that's spray from the falls.)

That's as far as I went, but the rest of these brave people decided to hike to the top of the falls by saying, "It's only a mile." Yeah, only a mile - straight up! Court made a valiant effort, but couldn't make it. But here are some pictures so we can all enjoy the view from up there.

The water roaring off the top of the falls.

I made this picture big so you could really see it. Look for the bridge - that's the bridge we were on. See the curvy road, that's what we walked up to get to the bridge.

And if you can't quite figure out just how high they hiked, here's a picture of where they where from where I was. (Sadly, this isn't actually them, but you can imagine.)

Oh, you can't see anything? Look at the top of the falls, then to the left. That's the platform they were standing on to get the pictures.

We had a great weekend in Portland. We saw rain, snow, sleet and sunshine. You have to love the Northwest in the spring!