We had to hurry to walk to where our walking tour was supposed to begin. We got there and found a whole crowd of people! Why, no, we hadn't pre-booked over the internet... Luckily a couple of people didn't show up, so we got to go anyhow :)
The Underground Tour of Portland is a walking tour that is only partly underground. But they talk about nefarious doings in Portland's past for the entire 2 1/2 hour tour -- thus the name. There really are some tunnels under the streets of Portland, dating back to when it was necessary to bring goods from the lower docks up to the warehouses. Apparently they didn't have winches but they did have miners.
One of the places we got to visit was a Chinese apothocary. There were all kinds of herbs and such on the shelves.
Some of them had extremely bizarre contents!
It was a fun tour, and afterwards we had to revisit a couple of the places we'd walked past. First stop: VooDoo Doughnuts!
I ordered a Cock-N-Balls (triple creme filled) and Haley ordered their famous Bacon Maple Bar. We agreed to split a doughnut with chocolate and peanut butter on top. We took our delicious booty to Kell's Irish Pub.
They have lots of money on their ceiling -- once a year they scrape it off and donate it to charity :)
Haley ordered a root beer and I ordered a pint of cider. Yes indeed, we totally blew our dinner money on doughnuts and beer :)
Haley decided she liked the bacon maple bar!
Finally we took a street car over to Powell's Bookstore and spent lots of money on books :) The bookstore takes up an entire city block! They have to color code the areas so you can navigate the building!
At last we staggered back to the hostel, finished our doughnuts, and had some fruit to fill in the cracks. We did not make it to Lloyd's Center to go ice skating -- I guess we'll have to do that tomorrow, before we head over to the water park :)
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