Pittock Mansion Distance: 5 minutes Price: $8 per person What to do here: gaze at opulence that I will never be a part of. There are also fantastic views of the city and Mount Hood. Bennett's Rating: 3 stars out of 5 Katie's Rating: Can't really say, neither of us has been yet (Bennett still gives a rating though) Oregon Coast 
Oregon CoastDistance: 1.5 hours
Price: Gas and food
Things to do there: gaze at the tremendous beauty, hike, play on the beach (water is a tad bit too cold to go swimming in but getting your toes wet is fun), see the lighthouses, get some ice cream at Tillamook cheese factory. Even the drive out to the beach is spectacular.
Bennett's Rating: 5 stars out of 5
Katie's Raging: 5 stars out of 5
Portland Underground Tour
Portland Underground Tour
Distance: 10 minutes to downtown Portland
Price: $13 per person
Things to do there: see the underground tunnels where people were kidnapped into slave labor on marine ships from 1850-1941.
Bennett's rating: dunno, haven't done it yet. I'll say 6 stars out of 5.
Katie's rating: haven't been yet
Powell's Books
Powell's Books
Distance: 10 minutes to downtown Portland
Price: free (unless you buy a book)
Things to do there: see the nations largest bookstore. It's one full city block and five stories tall. Aye carumbah! Thatz a lota books!
Bennett's Rating: 3.5 stars out of 5
Katie's Rating: 7 stars out of 10
Waterfront Park
Waterfront Park
Distance: 10 minutes to downtown Portland
Price: Free
Things to do there: see the landscape of downtown Portland from accross the Willamette River. It's gorgeous at night time!
Bennett's Rating: 3 stars out of 5
Katie's Rating: 5 stars out of 5
Food Carts
Food Carts
Distance: 10 minutes to downtown Portland
Price: around $5 for a meal (most likely not gluten free but you're welcome to risk it)
Things to do there: EAT! Over two city blocks of some of the finest street food this side of Bangkok. Sample food from Asia, Africa, Europe, South America and Canada. Dave, a traveler from Wisconsin, said, "I thoroughly enjoy getting the runs from the food carts." Actually, I don't know a Dave from Wisconsin but Bennett wanted me to write that.
Bennett's Rating: 5 stars out of 5 baby.
Katie's Rating: haven't tasted it yet!
Portland Temple
Portland TempleDistance: 15 minutes
Price: Free (unless you want to pay me for some reason)
What to do there: you know! It is really beautiful though. Even if we don't do a session, I should take you to see it.
Bennett's Rating: 1 star out of 5 (all temples are the same)
Katie's Rating: 5 stars out of 5
Mount Hood
Mount HoodDistance: 1 hour east
Price: gas, food...
What to do there: snow will still be hanging around in the spring so mostly it will be site seeing this beautiful volcano.
Bennett's Rating: 5 stars out of 5
Katie's Rating: 1 star out of 5 (I've only seen it a few times from the city and it still has snow on it, blagh!)
Rhododendron Garden
Rhododendron Garden Distance: 20 minutesPrice: $3 per person
What to do there: see more than 2500 rhododendron flowers and beautiful landscapes that include other flowers and waterfalls. This garden is run by volunteers.
Bennett and Katie have yet to do this but we both give it 11 stars
Columbia River Gorge
Colombia River GorgeDistance: 50 minutes
Price: Free
What to do there: waterfalls, waterfalls, beautiful fricken waterfalls. Gorgeous scenery of the Columbia River along with breathtaking forests.
Bennett's Rating: 7 stars out of 5
Katie's Rating: 2 stars out of 5 (I saw this through a car sick window on the last leg of a 12 hour move, not much enjoyment on my part)
Bennett's Note: "It's the prettiest part of Oregon and you're (Katie) going to make people not want to see it with a measley 2 star rating."
Scrap
Scrap Distance: 20 minutesPrice: pretty dang cheap
What to do there: this is a store where all the left over stuff goes. There's tons of left-over yarn, fabric, rubber bands, paper, stickers, tubes, glass, metal parts, carpet... anything you can think of. They sell it at extremely cheap prices ($4 for a bag full of fabric remnants). The idea is that they recycle stuff so you can make art. I love this place.
Bennett's Rating: -2 stars out of 5 (who wants to shop for crap on vacation?)
Katie's Rating: 5 stars out of 5 (as you can see, Bennett and I see crap differently)
Japanese Gardens
Japanese GardenDistance: 10 minutes
Price: $9.50 per person
What to do there: this is a spectacularly manicured authentic Japanese garden. Bennett went a few weeks ago (nothing was blooming yet) and still thought it was fantastic. In the springtime it's going to be whoo-rah!
Bennett's Rating: 4 stars out of 5
Katie's Rating: haven't been yet
Rerun
RerunDistance: 20 minutes
Price: pretty cheap 2nd hand store
What to do there: pretty cheap 2nd hand store. Actually, I though this was a cute, little store and wanted to share it with anyone interested.
Bennett's Rating: 0 stars out of 5
Katie's Rating: 3.5 stars out of 5
Maryhill Museum of Art and Vineyard
Maryhill Museum of Art and VinyardDistance: 2 hours and 3 minutes
Price: $9 per person What to do there: view art, scenery, and wine tasting for those of you who don't keep the word of wisdom (I heard it's okay to break some of the commandments on vacation (not including murder)).
Rose Test Garden
Rose Test GardenDistance: 10 minutes
Price: Free (unless you pick a rose, that's a $500 fine)
What to do there: the quintessential Portland experience. They don't call this the Rose City for nothing. The roses in bloom are yada yada yada. Can you tell I'm getting tired? Look at the pictures to get the idea.
Bennett's Rating: 4 stars out of 5
Katie's Rating: yes
Chinese Garden
Chinese GardenDistance: 10 minutes to downtown Portland
Price: $8.50 per person
What to do there: as you can tell, Portland is the land of gardens. It's beautiful here and you'll like it. That's all I can say.
Bennett's Rating: 3 stars out of 5
Katie's Rating: neither of us can have a rating; we haven't been yet
Multnomah Falls
Multnomah FallsDistance: 50 minutes
Price: Free
What to do there: outside of the rose garden, this is the next most Portlandy thing to do. It's up the Columbia River Gorge so if you go up there, you'll see a lot of beautiful things.
Bennett's Rating: 5 stars out of 5
Katie's Rating: probably 5 but I haven't been yet
Tulip Festival
Tulip FestivalDistance: 40 minutes
Price: M-F $5 per car, weekends $10 per car
What to do here: April is the perfect time to see the tulip farms. They have a festival with Dutch wood shoe making, games, music, and all the tulips you can eat (or look at).
Back to Eden
Back to EdenDistance: 20 minutes
Price: depends on what you want to eat
What to do there: This is a vegan, GF bakery. I'm not sure if it's solely GF but I saw that they sell GF so I put it on this post.
Bennett's Rating: 10 out of 5
Katie's Rating: I'm done doing this. I hope you enjoyed it!
5 comments:
If the weather is nice, I want to go OUTSIDE!!! I am so darned sick of being cold and inside. So that's my opinion.
Wow! This must have taken you guys forever to post! Was it an FHE? Most of the stuff looks amazing! The one thing I really DO NOT WANT TO DO is go in a bookstore with Bennett...you get stuck in there for hours. It's torture!
jeeze we live in a cool place. Let's do everything on that list especially the Tulip festival and ReRun looks sweet!
Yeah for GF bakeries! I've discovered 2 more in UT that are awesome! Too bad they are in Sandy and Layton...
I love all of those things! I totally want to do them! Thanks for doing this post, it looks like it took some time, but I laughed a lot so thanks for making my wednesday fun! See you in a week!
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