After breakfast and packing back into the car we headed towards Portland. We didn't have any traffic problems this day, so we were thankful for that. It was mostly just so hot. We wanted to see the waterfall that was right off the freeway as we got into Portland. They closed the entrance that we needed to get into the parking lot, so we had to drive way down the road and turn around. But we did finally get into the parking lot and found a spot.
We then walked over to the falls and enjoyed the views and slight mist we could feel off the water. They were selling some ice cream so we went to get some, but it was super expensive so we told the kids we would get them some ice cream when we went to Costco in Portland to get gas.
We then drove to the Costco that was by our hotel and they ended up not having ice cream available, so that was a major bummer. We then checked into our very large hotel (9 floors) and found out that their pool was open, but it was by reservation only and all the spots were already full for the day. WHAT! Another missed swimming opportunity. It was so hot in Portland, like 108 degrees and we really wanted to cool down. But, we couldn't.
Our room was on the top floor of the hotel and it was so hot in our room. Portland doesn't normally get that hot, so there air conditioning just wasn't keeping up. I probably should have asked if all the rooms were that hot, but I assumed they all were and didn't want to be a bother. So we suffered in our hot room all night. But they had a good breakfast the next morning so that helped the situation a little before we checked out.
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