The End of our following the Columbia River Adventure September 29 and 30

Life has been extremely busy these past couple of weeks. Since our trip to Portland I haven't been able to make any posts. So I am playing catch up. On our trip exploring along the columbia river we attended the Portland Zoo and Discovery Museum. Both were fun. We first attended the zoo. Within the first 10 minutes we had a first aid accident. Benji was so excited he was running and fell on the cobblestones. Pretty crummy place to fall. He got pretty scraped up on his knees, chest and arms. Luckily mom had all of the necessary supplies to help him feel better. The boys really liked seeing the animals at the zoo. Dad bought all the kids stuffed animals. It was a fun trip.
Then we went to the OMSI Science center. We started out in the older kids science area hoping that when the kids got tired we could move to the area that is specifically for them. So we played in an area with balls that was for 6 years on up. It happened to be the best and most fun place for the children. They were able to learn a lot of new things.However, we were very disappointed in the preschool area it was no more fun than going to the Discovery Museum in our hometown. If any of you have been to it you know what I mean.
All in all it was a fun trip had by all, except for getting lost in Portland because of all the detours and a GPS that wasn't up to date. But I guess I didn't have to mention that did I.



Sad, Sad Benji had an accident.


He started to calm down but then he told us that his arm hurt, so I lifted up his sleeve and it was bleeding and mom said "It is bleeding," He freaked out! It would have been much worse if he hadn't had the jacket on.







Eric Jr.


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I almost think Eric had more fun at the Science Center than the kids.





This was right before Joey happened to put his knee on the spinning table which then knocked out from under him and made his face land right on the spinning table. Cut his mouth open which you will see later on in some of the pictures. Come on they each had to have an accident :)





Future Weather Man

My little Roaring Dinosaurs.