The One With Portland In January

Portland has that damp air. It makes clothes stick to you in the summer . . . . and in the winter it makes it 10 times colder than what it actually is. That's what it was like for us when we went to Portland in January.

It snowed pretty much every day we were there. The roads were terrible. We went to Ikea (of course) the first day we were there and picked up pants for Eric and I the second. Next to visiting family those were the big things we wanted to accomplish while we were up there. With Eric's family we opened Christmas presents an we went to the Portland Aquarium.

 

Sadly the weather didn't cooperate much better on our way home. An ice storm was going to come through Portland starting Thursday and ending Saturday. We had two options. 1: Leave early Thursday morning and beat the storm, or 2: Leave Sunday after the strom was over.

 

The idea of driving all day Sunday and getting home late just to get up and go back to work the next day wasn't so appealing. So we ended up shortening our trip and heading out about 8 in the morning on Thursday. It was sad because we had several outings still planned, including meeting up with some of our Portland friends - we are just excited to get to see them all when we go back up in March! :)