Lion King or Bust (Portland Trip Day 2)

After swimming in the pool one last time this morning and eating a fantastic breakfast, we packed up and headed out.

First Stop….The Portland Zoo.

The real Lion King.

Notice above, the meat that the zoo keepers stuck to the glass for the lions to eat. It made for a super fun time watching the lion “hunt” for it’s prey and then lick the glass clean. Not a speck of meat wasted.

They have a cool Dinosaur Walk you can go on. Some 17 or 18 robotic dinosaurs which would growl at us and spit at us every corner we turned down. The kids thought this was a pretty cool section of the zoo. They even got to dig for fossils in one section.

Right about the time our feet and legs had just about given up and broken down on us we arrived at the much anticipated train ride around the park. Slow and simple, but a nice refresher from the walking and packing we had been doing for the past few hours.

The steam engine we were being pulled with had to stop at one point (pictured below) and “blow off some steam”. It was a loud explosion of steam that sent clouds rushing into the forest around us. Pretty cool really.

If Jax wasn’t being pushed in a stroller, we would just throw him to the next attraction. Either way, his little legs didn’t get too much of a work out. Ahhh, the advantage of being the baby.

We hitched a ride in the back of Leslie’s truck instead of waiting for the zoo shuttle to come and bus us over to our van.

We were all smiles at the way this weekend turned out. On our way home, we stopped in Hood River to eat pizza at Pietro’s Pizza. Kind of a tradition of ours most every time we make a weekend out of Portland. We like the pizza and the kids like the arcades, and it is perfect timing for a much needed potty break.

All in all…..a fantastic weekend. Thanks much to our Mom and Dad Rose for treating us to the Play last night. And thank much to the kids and cousins and siblings that made this weekend so fun.