DAY 41 - PORTLAND, OREGON 

JUNE 23 , 2014

Another GREAT day in Portland, Oregon.  We started with a tag-along to the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI), right down to the center of the city of Portland.   We sure were glad that Phil was leading the way.  

Inside OMSI

OMSI is 219,000 square feet of brain-powered fun!  Five enormous halls bring science to life with hundreds of interactive exhibits and displays.  You can experience an earthquake, participate in lab demos, enjoy a film in a giant-screen theater, explore the universe in a world-class planetarium, tour a real submarine and dine at Theory where you can learn about the science of food.

We started our visit at the submarine.  What a great experience to get to go inside a real submarine.

Mike is at the beginning of the Sub tour

The Sub is stationed outside the museum, on the Columbia River

Inside the Sub

And we must see the torpedo room

Back in the museum, one of the areas was dedicated to dinosaurs, and various pre-historic animals.

This was one of the best displays of dinosaurs and pre-historic animals I've ever seen.

The dinosaurs range from very large to small

This picture doesn't show the different colored lights
 we saw on the dinosaurs

How would you like to wake up to this guy?

There were several hands on exhibits called Brain Teasers.  Several of us tried our hand at solving the puzzles.   We were feeling really smart until some of the kids that were under 10 could complete the solution before we could.

Boys and their toys

Several of the group went to the Laser Show at the Planetarium.  This was interesting how they put different types of music to the Laser show.

Some of group went to the Zoo, cooked, shopped, just relaxed and had a pedicure

I guess you can tell what she did today.

At 6:30 the Louisiana group of caravaner's cooked a pastalaya for the whole group.  WOW was that great.  The Louisianan's sure know how to cook.

Pete is cooking the meal

Verna is helping Pete
(Beside every good man is a good woman)

Verna, Pete, Dudley and Rexine are the cooks
(They sure know how to cook)

 For desert we had berry and apple pies to celebrate Phil's birthday.

Everyone had a GREAT day.

Rig #19 (the Brothers-in-Law) Mike and Tom