After touring downtown we drove to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Park.
The Oregon Living Vietnam Memorial, Oregon history timeline and names of Oregonians lost or missing throughout the Vietnam war are on sections of the Wall throughout the park
On top of the hill which we eventually climb in a spiral walk are Wall sections with names and dates and history. You can see two sections in this picture.
This last pic is the MIA section, we had pictures of every section but for whatever reason we lost some of the pictures during my vacation from the camera. :(
We then headed to the Test Rose Gardens. We crashed a wedding party and smelled lots of the flowers. Then SAM bought me the best snow cone I've ever had. The ice was like snow, not the hard chunks of ice you usually get in a snow cone. We both got cherry flavored, it hit the spot.
View of Portland from the Rose Garden
We headed for home, SAM cooked dinner and we sat out on the deck until dinner was served. We had a big meal of polish sausage and fresh vegetables, I cleaned one pan that couldn't go in the dishwasher and then the two of us went for a walk after dinner.
We walked down to the lookout I mentioned earlier where you can see the mountains and down the valley, a beautiful spot and then we took the long way home. Nice cool evening and good way to walk off the dinner. BTW - SAM makes a very good pot of coffee.(As long as he doesn't use Darksheare's recipe) He even let me drink out of his Wolf coffee cup once.
31 posted on 07/28/2003 7:21:22 AM PDT by SAMWolf
(Kiss me twice. I'm schizophrenic.)
