Portland Dining Desires

Tasty N Sons (try Auntie Paula’s French Toast with peach-maple & whipped cream)

Waffle Window

Cafe Broder (try Abel skivers with lemon curd and lignonberry jam)

Glorias Secret Cafe

(Ideas from Your Homebased Mom)

Portland Casual Dining

Por Que No is solidly one of my favorite places to eat in Portland. It is located next to Apizza Scholls, making it a difficult decision every time, but you can't go wrong with either. The Grilled Cheese Grill is a lovely throwback to earlier days, but its just hard to each slabs of cheese and not feel a little guilty.

Images from Your Homebased Mom

Theme of the Week: All About Me

Each week at Tiny Tigers they have a theme. I've decided that I am going to try to extend the theme with additional activities at home. I'll try to keep a log of my ideas here so that I can use them again some day and please, if you have any ideas, let me know. This week is "All About Me" and here are some of the plans...

To explore favorites: everyone needs a favorite ice cream: lets find which it is at Salt and Straw downtown (Reviewed and photographed by Your Homebased Mom).

To learn about our bodies: paper dolls: these by Lily and Thistle are ideal but for an older age group

Learn more about body parts: fingerpainting ideas from Meet the Dubiens

More about body parts: oreo eyes from Disney Family: Did you know the white part of your eye is called the sclera?

Portland Food To Eat

I want to eat at Doc.

Recommendations from others

pulled from sticky notes around my notebook:

Restaurants to try: Ned Ludd, Clark Lewis, Corbet Fish House

Website: councilofdads.com

Book: One Vacant Chair by Joe Coomer

Music: Shoe Shine Blue

Top Baby Friendly Portland Locals

Restaurant: Hopworks Urban Brewery, Laurelwood Public House & Brewery

Coffee/Snacks: Munchkin Playland, Cafe Sip-n-Play, Frog Pond Toys & Lily Pad Cafe

Toy Store: Piccolo Mondo, Tinker Toys, Kids at Heart

Ice Cream Parlor: Bliss Bake Shop

Book Shop: Powell's, Annie Bloom's, Green Bean Books

Kid's Clothing: Clogs-n-more, Bella Stella, Hanna Anderson Outlet

Theater: McMenamin's Kennedy School, Academy Theater

Children's Gym: The Little Gym

Yoga Studio: Stumptown Yoga

Hair Salon: Little Clippers

Rainy Day Destination: OMSI, Portland Children's Museum

Where kids eat free: Applebee's on Monday, Chevys on Tuesday, Denny's, Pizzza Hut at lunch

Image from http://www.florabellacollection.blogspot.com/

Eats to try

"broder is open 9AM to 3PM daily for breakfast & lunch
dinner hours are thursday through saturday 6-10
we accept reservations for dinner (503) 736-3333"

Portland Farmer's Markets

Beaverton: SW Hall Boulevard between third and fifth (130 vendors - the state's largest market)

Hillsdale: SW Capitol Highway and Sunset Boulevard

Portland: Wednesday and Saturday (south park blocks)

Lacamas Creek Park

Hiking; 6 miles; easy to moderate; exit 12 off highway 14.right at flashing stop.left on ne third ave. trailhead on left

Portland Eats

Favs of Heidi I need to try

e-sans thai cuisine

bob's red mill

Bagby Hot Springs

3 miles out and back (easy)

136 degree springwater that fills the large cedar tubs

$5 parking pass

Beware: Clothing optional

From Estacada travel south on 224 for 26 miles. Pass the Ripllebrook Ranger Station and turn right on Forest Service ROad 46.  Travel 3.6 miles to FS 63 and turn right.  Continue another 3.5 miles to FS 70. Turn right.  The parking lot will be 6 miles ahead on your left.  

101 Things to Do Insert

from the Tigard Times

go to Adelman Peony Gardens May 1 - June 15
Sauvie Island summer concerts and flower/fruit picking
The Bridgeport Village Summer Concert Series
Camping
Drive the 50-mile Vineyard and Valley Tour Route
Summer Concerts at the zoo or bargain second Tuesday visit
Movies in the Park: West Linn/Mamma Mia/August 1/Mary S. Young Park
Movies by the lake on Thursdays July 16 - August 27
Go to a duck pond: Summerlake Park in Tigard or Beaverton's Commonwealth Lake Park
Kayak around Ross Island ($20 for two person kayak)
Canoe on the Willamette or Kayak on the Columbia or Tualatin rivers
Go to the pool with slides (6.50 or 9) or wave pool ($9.99)
Use a cultural pass from the library to visit Pittock Mansion or the Art Museum.
Lake Oswego Festival of the Arts June 26-28
Demolition derby at the Washington County Fair July 23-26
Got to a Beavers baseball game
ride the tram ($4)
Visit the Sellwood-Moreland's Oaks Pioneer Church and Oaks Amusement Park
Beaverton Farmers Market Saturdays 8-1:30 Wednesdays 3-6 on Hall between third and fifth
Stay in a forest service lookout tower for $20

Dinner

I want to eat at Pok Pok (mentioned in Food and Wine magazine) and Campbells.  And soon!   

NY Times shout out to Portland

Great article in the NYtimes.  I want to stay here, at the Ace Hotel.   

And eat here, at Bunk Sandwiches.  

Happy Hour at Spa

This needs to be on my to do list: 

$25 M-W @ Kalista Salon And Day Spa

503-230-8952

137 SE 28th; Portland, OR

Can a Place be Too Perfect?

http://www.budgettravel.com/bt-dyn/content/article/2005/06/10/AR2005061001402_2.html

Gorge Hikes!

Cape Horn Trail

• 7.8 miles
• gain of 1100 feet
• intermediate

Deschutes River Trail

• 5.3 miles
• gain of 700 feet
• intermediate

Starvation Ridge/Mount Defiance Loop

• 15 miles
• gain of 4840 feet
• extreme

Cherry Orchard Trail

• 4 miles, round trip
• 1500 feet
• intermediate

Oneonta Gorge

• 1.2 miles, round-trip
• gain of 50 feet
• intermediate

Multnomah Falls - Wahkeena Falls Loop

• 5.4 miles
• gain of 1,700 feet
• intermediate

Table Mountain

• 15 miles, round trip
• gain of 3300 feet
• extreme

Ruckel Ridge Loop

• 8 miles
• gain of 3700 feet
• extreme

Wahclella Falls

• 1.8 miles, round-trip
• gain of 250 feet
• easy

Eagle Creek

• 3-13 miles
• gain of 500 to 1,200 feet
• easy to intermediate

Beacon Rock

• 1.8 miles, round-trip
• 600 feet
• easy

Mosier tunnels

• 9 miles, round-trip
• 500 feet
• easy

TBA

Time-Based Art festival

last year's highlights included actors reading Willa Cather's My Antonia aloud on street corners, hip-hop workshops, and free haircuts by 10 year-olds.  

September 5 to 14

www.pica.org

Hiking, anyone?

The Grotto - 62-acre Roman Catholic sanctuary nestled deep within a wooded area

Mount Hood National Forest - Head to the Lost Lake Loop and hike the easy 3-mile route that circles around the park's largest lake. 

Forest Park - Hike the 7.5 mile Woods and Gardens Loop in the largest urban forest in the country. 

I can't wait for June 7th

Cannon Beach
http://www.sandcastleday.bravehost.com/sandcastleday.html