The day started quite early (at least for a vacation day). The day came even earlier as we were both up late reading our new books and hanging out. While we were driving, I happened to snap a quick photograph of mountains. It was a bright blue sky and Mount Baker stuck out quite nicely against it.
We headed out of Kenmore at around 8AM to get down to Portland so we could hit up the Portland Zoo. Leslie planned a jam packed weekend and this was our first stop to take some photographs. We arrived in Portland around noon and stopped by our hotel, the Heathmann.
The Heathmann Hotel was a very comfortable hotel with great service. The only thing that I would say was a concern was the size of the room for the cost. I kind of figured it would have been a bit larger. That aside, it was a nice place to stay and its location to the Tri-Met system were definite plusses. After getting ourselves generally settled, we headed out to the Portland Zoo. This was as easy as walking three blocks and waiting for the Tri-Met tram thing to take us there. It was a total of 20 minutes to the Zoo and we were effectively dropped off at the door step. This made it easy to just drive down and then just park our car for the remainder of the weekend.
We arrived at the Zoo and we made our way inside (Bonus #1: If you take the Tri-Met you get money off your ticket to get into the the Zoo, Bonus #2: If you are a member of the Woodland Park Zoo, you can get into the Portland Zoo for free as it is part of the reciprical zoo and acquarium program). We stopped for a quick bite to eat and then made our way into the Zoo for some adventures!
Take a gander at some of the highlighted photographs below or check out my Portland Zoo Flickr set for a complete review!
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