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Last Saturday Sophie and I took the train to Portland for the day to visit the Children’s museum. We had a wonderful, exhausting day full of adventures. Sophie spent Friday night at our house so we could get up, have a good breakfast and catch the 9am Cascade Amtrak to Portland.

Train depot in Eugene

Boarding the Amtrak train

As we were walking from Union Station in Portland to the closest MAX stop we passed the Chinese garden and couldn’t resist stopping to visit.

When we reached the museum, lunch was our first priority, but after a quick slice of pizza and some fruit Sophie was more than ready to begin playing.

The Aurthur exhibit

The “dig” pit

Face painting (Sophie painted mine, too)

The clay workshop (Sophie is making a butterfly)

Musical instruments

Water play

We took MAX back downtown for dinner at Typhoon, a nice Thai restaurant just a few blocks from Pioneer Square.

We should have called a taxi when we finished dinner, but I thought it would be easy to catch a bus back to Union Station. When we just missed our bus, I couldn’t hail a taxi, so we ended up walking the 12 blocks to the station, just barely making it in time for the train. Sophie was a real trooper, and didn’t complain about the walk, but once we had settled into the train ride home, she was hungry again and ready for the warm coffee cake they had available in the cafe car.

We arrived back in Eugene about 9:30 pm, tired but very happy.