Esplin's Springbreak in Portland

Wade and his family drove to Portland on Friday March 21st and stayed with Murphy and I in our condo. We ordered pizza when the arrived friday night and had wall to wall sleeping bags, but we fit everyone in!!!
Saturday morning we got up early and headed to the Portland Zoo, which is amazing and took the entire day to walk through. Uncle Scott met up with us at the Petting zoo. It was a gorgeous day - first sunny day after months of rain and we had a blast!!!! We took a break from the sight seeing to go out to the car and eat a picnic lunch we had packed. It was also a chance to warm up a bit, even with the sun it was just over 60 degrees out.
After a day at the zoo, we decided to take advantage of the nice weather (good chance of rain the next day) and we went downtown to the Saturday market. Lots of fun stuff and crazy people to look at. We all got Elephant Ears and jumped back on the train to go back to the car. Very fun day but boy were we worn out from a very full day!!
Easter Sunday - we all slept in a bit and were glad we fit in the Saturday market the day before because it was a gloomy rainy day. We packed up everybody in the Suburban and drove around to do some sight seeing from the car and avoid being out in the rain. Then we stopped at the Washington Square mall and Sears was open - all the other stores were closed because it was Easter. Sear's was having a crazy sale and everyone got some great deals on new clothes - super cheap and you gotta love not paying sales tax!! After our shopping trip, we headed back to my place to start cooking Easter dinner. I cooked a ham and we had scalloped potatoes, salads and yellow cake with strawberries for dessert. Not half bad if I do say so myself...:) Scott came over for dinner and we all watched a couple movies on HBO.
Monday - Everybody (except me, I had to work) packed up and headed out to have lunch with Scott at the Rose Quarter. They got to go down on the gym floor where the Blazer's play - think that was a pretty amazing visit!
Next stop for Wade and Family was the Oregon Coast and then up to Seattle to visit with Grandpa and Grandma.