Jun 4
What a wonderful day it was today!
Just to clarify, today was not Walt's birthday, it's on the 8th....but we celebrated today because it's Saturday and that was the best time for everyone to get together, and because Martyn and I will be gone to San Diego next Saturday.
I'm glad we chose today too, because it was absolutely gorgeous outside. 80 degrees, and bright and sunny all day. Martyn let Eli and I sleep until 6 (whoo hoo!) and then we both got up, around 6:45 or so. Martyn was ready to go back down for a nap around 8:30, so I laid him down in the bassinet and he slept for 3 hours! He's learning how to do that I suppose, which makes me happy.
Eli's parents got here to our house around noon, and we piled everyone into our car and went down to the MAX station, and rode MAX downtown. We kind of forgot that tonight was the Star Light parade, and the Rose Festival was going on down at the water front, so there were just a ton of people downtown....add to the fact, that it was such a beautiful day, and it was just a little hectic and crowded on the MAX, especially with the stroller. It was still pretty cool though.
I was feeling cranky all morning and really trying to get it together, and be pleasant because we were celebrating Walt's 60th birthday. We were a little early getting down to the restaurant (Dan and Louie's) so we sat at the outdoor table of the bar across the street, in the shade, and drank some water and people watched. That was cool.
When it was time to go into the restaurant, we went over and got our table and waited for everyone else to show up. It was a lot of fun to visit with family we haven't seen in a while, and some of whom haven't seen Martyn in person yet.
After we ate, we walked back up to the MAX, road up to and transferred onto the Street car, and road through downtown, all the way down to the tram that goes to OHSU. Walt had never ridden it before, and we decided it was such a nice day to do it. I had never ridden the tram either, and it's been on my bucket list of things to do since I moved to Portland, so that was really cool. It goes right over the Birth Center where I had Martyn too, so both ways (up and back down) we pointed it out which was kind of fun. What a great view of the City of Portland, and surrounding area, too! You could see Mount Hood, Mount St. Helens, and the tip of Mount Adams. If someone had shot off a rocket while we were on the tram, from Walt and MaryJane's house, you could see right where they lived too. It was beautiful!
We just barely caught the last ride of the tram of the day, too. I'm so glad we made it, it was worth the $4 round trip fare, especially on such a beautiful day.
We all rode the Street Car, and MAX back to Sunset transit, where my car was parked and came back to our house....Robin and Miriam met up with a bit later, and had cake and ice cream for Grandpa.
Martyn was a trooper all day, and such a good boy. He was tired of being in the stroller by the end though, and I took him out on the MAX....there were way less people in the evening because everyone was heading into town for the Star Light Parade.
I think Walt had a great birthday, I know I had a great day....and I was even cranky to start with. It was just a wonderful, beautiful day altogether.
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