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On our way into OMSI we noticed two charging station parking spaces. The last time I saw one of these was at Costco in San Jose, California in the 1990s. Never once was a car charging itself in those prime parking places at Costco. However, on our way out of OMSI we did see the above car charging.
OMSI (Oregon Museum of Science and Industry) is a great place to spend the day. See my other post for a tip on how to get in for free.
We loved the free, Portland street car system. We could hop on and off anywhere. When it’s raining a popular place to jump off is Pioneer Place. I’m not into frou-frou shopping myself, but a book on the upper level with this view isn’t a bad way to burn an hour while those in your party do their thing.
The main reason we went to Portland was to see Wicked. Photography wasn’t allowed so these are the only two shots I took, before the show started.
We were starving, getting rained heavily on, and asked only one person what the best Chinese food in town was. She pointed us to House of Louie across the street. We were disappointed. The food was mediocre at best.
We made up for it the next day with a great meal at Mother’s.
At long last you get to see the donuts we ate. I ordered the “Mango Tango” (lower left). I didn’t realize it when I ordered but the icing was actually fondant. The insides were a mangoish jelly.
My daughter had the one covered in Oreos. I think it is on yesterday’s menu and called “Dirt Doughnut.” My son had the “No Name” donut which had chocolate, rice krispies, and peanut butter on it.
Needless to say, unless you hate donuts, you will want to check out Voodoo Doughnut the next time you visit Portland.
As far as I could tell there were about three or four times as many donuts on display as there were donuts listed on the menu. We thought about just having them pick a dozen for us as the price wasn’t much more than us picking four donuts, but in the end we made our selections. You’ll get to see them tomorrow.
Since I can tell you didn’t get your fill of Voodoo Doughnuts yesterday, I’ve added some more in today’s entry. Click on this photograph to make it bigger and then look closely. What do you see? A pentagram donut perhaps? There were so many crazy ones. The whole place was crazy really. One wall was wallpapered with random obituaries–a first in restaurant decor I’m sure.
Last week we spent several days in Portland. So for the next week or so on Ashland Daily Photo you will get to see the other city on the far extreme of the state.
Today’s picture is of the lovely bacon donut we didn’t purchase at Voodoo Doughnut. The giant, glazed donut behind the bacon donut doesn’t look that large in this picture for some reason, but it is actually huge. I would estimate it to have at least 5X the calories of a regular glazed donut. It goes by the name Tex-Ass donut, and it is free if you can eat it in under 80 seconds.
This is the video I took of Hanneke Cassel with my LX3 a while back. The quality was much better before Youtube crunched it.