Vacation Day 2 - April 26th

We had breakfast in the morning and then got ready to go to the Portland Oregon Temple. Chelsey brought up this idea a couple weeks before we got there as they have to travel about 3 hours to go to a Temple in Washington, so we decided to trade on babysitting.

Matt wanted to do a session, but we arrive 5 minutes after it had already started, so we decided to do sealings. That ended up not working out, so we ended up completing initiatories. After, we finished, we came out of the Temple to swap the kids with Chelsey and Hans.

Lydia was asleep and I didn't want to wake her up by putting her in her car seat to go somewhere. So we hung out around the temple. Matt made us peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and we hung out outside and in the visitor center.
While we were outside, we took some pictures of Arlee. She has such a fun personality.

The Portland Oregon Temple was erected in 1989. 

Me and Lydia...who is sleeping and I was happy to hold her close

We went into the visitor center, because it got cold and
cloudy again. We walked in and asked Arlee who this statue
was of, she said Jesus. We tried to get her picture but she was shy. 

Arlee and the Sister missionary that was trying to
talk to her. Arlee was being shy, but was okay when the missionary
asked if she wanted to touch Jesus' feet. I really like this picture. 

Eventually, Arlee warmed up to the sister missionary when she asked
Arlee if she wanted to color. Well, Arlee go to color temples on this
huge TV touch screen.

Arlee likes to color everything PINK. 

Lydia and Matt watching Arlee color

Matt, Lydia, and Me. Arlee was too busy coloring.

 Chels and Hans took pictures of them temple, while we were inside. Here are my favorite ones.

This is my most favorite.

 After Chelsey and Hans got out of the Temple, we took some pictures of each other.

Matt and I were goofing off. Chels caught it on camera

Classic moment of kissing the man of your dreams and
your foot "popping".  Chels helped suggest the foot "popping."
But Matt is the man of MY dreams!

Us and the girls. Lydia is even awake and smiling

Hoge family and our vacation buddies. 

We didn't want to go back to the hotel and it was almost dinner time, so we went to ride the tram. Chelsey had seen a brochure about it and it looked like a long ride and lead to some fun things to do.

$4.00 dollars per person and a very short ride later, we found out differently. The tram only went up to the hospital and was a short 1 minute ride. The view was nice, but that was about it. Trust us, this is definitely not some to do as a tourist destination like the brochure said.

After getting of the tram, we decided to eat dinner at Shari's by our hotel. A close 20 miles away, but at rush hour in Portland it took over 60 minutes. We were all starving by the time we got there, but the food was FANTASTIC!