Downtown Portland, OR

 Our first day together in Oregon, we decided to spend in downtown Portland. The nation's largest open market is every Saturday and Sunday along the Willamette River that separates east and west Portland. The market was amazing! Most of the vendors offered handcraftes items and tee-shirts, others sold delicious cuisine form around the world! For lunch we had one of our favorites, greek gyro.

After the open market, we walked around this beautiful park along the river. It was so cold next to the water, but once we got deeper into downtown it warmed up (good hot coffee helped too!)

It took us awhile to navigate downtown and find a map! Oh and did I mention we stopped by the Columbia store and bought warmer jackets! ;) Our Florida blood needed some assistance.


We found China Town and walked to Portland's own Chinese Garden. The garden was beautiful. And of course I took too many photos to post. But here are a few.  

We ended the day, after walking for 6 hours, in Deschutes Brewery to watch the Oregon Ducks play the Washington Cougars. The Ducks won of course. ;) But it was fun to sit down and sample some of the breweries signature beers.