Portland

While the majority of the trip appealed to Cam's skateboarding passion, our few days in Portland were particularly awesome! Thank you to Heather for being such a wonderful hostess and event planner. She had already pulled up some of the skate parks in the Portland area for Cameron to test out and we were ready to wrap up our "Pacific NW Skate Tour"... The famous Burnside park was first on our list, and it was an experience! This park is quite well known with all the true boarders and is even featured in some of his skateboarding video games. The guys skating were hard core - mostly locals - and surprisingly polite. This park was pretty "old school."

The next park was Pier park and a bit more urban. Cam had fun at this one, but preferred Burnside. In fact, we ended up going back on Wednesday to Burnside before we flew out. He didn't want to hit a "new" park, he was pretty set on this one. (With the exception of the 7-11 parking lot.

Heth took us to the Nike campus for lunch - I hadn't been back there since I left Nike! Cam got a real treat when we headed over to her building. One of the developers in Golf used to be over with Jordan. He'd had a pair of Air Jordan's he'd been holding onto (Cam's size) that were apparently a pretty hot item when they came out. Similar to the Wii - they were gone and sold out before they even came out! Heather told Drew about Cam, and so they waited until Cam could fit into them. The timing was perfect and Cameron was stunned to get them! Of course, we headed over to the Employee store and did some unneeded shopping. :) We also had such a great time playing poker in Heth's voodoo lounge every night ...

lunch at Stanich's ...

our walks out for our morning coffee, BBQing, and of course the girly time that Heth and I took advantage of with all of our chats. I ended up with Cam's bug Wednesday morning, so it was not a fun "last day" in Portland for me. I was sick about every hour and a half and it really put a damper on things. Thank god for Heth - she stepped up to the plate with Cam and took over! This could also be why he walked out of the E Store with two pairs of skate shoes - mom was not in the mood to argue. Sure Cam, here's the Visa ... go for it. I'll be int he bathroom. It sucked to leave and end our vacation, but there is nothing like being at home when you're sick. The flight home was horrible - couple more bathroom trips - the barf bag was NOT an option - and one pull over after Bryan picked us up. This crap lasted until Saturday morning. I'm just grateful it started at the END of our trip and not at the beginning!

We had such a great time on our vacation and could not have asked for a better time with family and friends!