Downtown Portland

On Sept. 24th, 2007 (Monday), my boyfriend and I drove down to Portland, Oregon. It was my second time there since 1995. It was 2 days before school was going to start. We both didn't get a chance to go on a trip during summer. We wanted to do something or go somewhere but there was no place to go in Seattle that we really wanted to go. Because, Jin has never been to Oregon, we decided to go on a one day trip down and back up. It took us 5 long hours to get there. We had stopped by Tacoma to get lunch at a Korean restaurant. Tacoma has more Korean restaurant than up north. We were so excited when we finally passed the border to get into Oregon. Because we didn't have a GPS system in our car, we had no idea where to get off to get to downtown Portland. We randomly got off at some exit, but luckily it led us straight into downtown. It was very similar to Seattle downtown.

We parked our car and walked around looking for shopping malls. We bothered a lot of people for directions and to take pictures. We saw Saks 5th Avenue and looked around. We also went to Abercrombie, Norstorm, Pacific Center. My boyfriend shoopped a lot because he took advantage of the fact that there was no tax in Oregon. We asked people if there was another shopping mall, a bigger one, near downtown. They told us to go to Lyold Center. They told us to take the 'Max'. We didn't know what 'Max' was. One of the ladies in Nordstorm told us that it's a free bus that people can take. I was surprise there was free transportation in Oregon. It would be nice to have one in Seattle, too!