Snow Day for Mercer Island

Icy roads, snow, and brrrrr cold are good reasons to cancel school, but doesn't stop the kids from playing outside.

Watch the 1-min video here:

Mercer Island Snow Day 

Thanksgiving in Portland

If you want to know what we did this weekend in Portland, watch the 9-min video:

First we ate our Thanksgiving meal at Jake's, a famous restaurant here.  The kids ate turkey, we ate fish.  We watched the Portland Macy's Thanksgiving Parade in the rain, though a nearby hotel was kind enough to offer us front-row seats. Then we did Christmas shopping, followed by an amphibious tour of the city on the disappointing Portland Duck.  We also enjoyed daily dips in our hotel pool: watch how Martha is now close to swimming without her floatation jacket!

Conclusion: we love Portland, but wish it would stop raining.

 

 

Our visit with Tony

We had dinner at a nice Lebanese restaurant with my cousin and his girlfriend. 

Chinese Garden in Portland

It's our first day in Portland, a rainy, rainy day, but the Chinese Garden is only a few blocks from our hotel so we braved the weather to see a beautiful place in the middle of the city. Click here for a short video:

Chinese Garden  

Passport application

We applied for passports for the kids.