This was our last day of vacation, so we slept in a little bit before heading downstairs to eat the free breakfast offered by the hotel. We had our choice between a breakfast buffet or to order from their restaurant's full breakfast menu. I chose the buffet and Lesley ordered an omelet from the menu.

After breakfast, we headed out for a walk at Mount Tabor. This is a park on an extinct volcanic cinder cone. The weather was cool and damp, but it was a beautiful morning for a walk as we almost had the park all to ourselves. There were a few small reservoirs in the park as well as views toward the city.

We then headed toward downtown to have lunch at one of Portland's many food carts. We then went to the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry. Like most science museums, the exhibits were made to be fun and interactive for children, but it was still interesting enough for us. There were several brain teaser puzzles that we did and there was a large globe that showed all kinds of neat things about earth, including weather patterns, earthquake locations, and flight patterns. It also had information on Jupiter and its moons. There was another exhibit area that had a lot of interactive experiments that were kind of fun. We also got tickets to the planetarium where they were showing "Laser Michael Jackson", which was quite corny, but it had some of his songs with a laser light show on screen. In retrospect we wished we'd gone to the show about stars.

When we left the museum it was raining lightly, but by the time we got to our car (not a far walk away), we were in a downpour. This sudden heavy rainstorm was unlike anything I've ever experienced in Seattle and very similar to the type of rain that we used to get in Texas. It was great (once we were inside the car) to get to watch such a downpour. It, however, made it a little more difficult to figure out what to do next. We decided to escape the rain at Powell's City of Books, a huge bookstore in downtown Portland. We bought a cookbook there and then headed to a pizza place for dinner before heading back.

We left at around 6:30 and didn't have many issues with traffic or rain on our way back, though both got worse as we approached Seattle. We didn't have much time to unpack when we got home and had to get ready for work the next day.