more pics from Portland

Brian lives really close to the train station - so we all took the train to downtown Portland to explore.
Andrew at the waterfront.
we stopped at an italian restaurant for lunch and belinis...
Andrew enjoyed his lasagna
that night there was a big tree-lighting celebration in the downtown square. Starbucks was giving out free peppermint hot chocolate.
cheers for hot chocolate!
Here's Carolyn with a hot chocolate mustache
This dude in the cricket outfit was giving out light-up green cricket buttons to everyone in the croud (PJ is really happy about it!) we still have no idea what Cricket is...
there was a balloon artist selling balloons who had Elmo with a tip jar.
Portland has the worlds largest bookstore (it's freaking huge)
here's Joe with the books...
We decided to get some beer at a tavern. this is us J-walking for beer.
Henry's Tavern...
it turned out to be a little brewery. very cool.