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[quote=Anonymous]My inlaws live in Portland we took out then just over 2 year old twin boys to Portland for Thanksgiving week last year and they LOVED it.

I would recommend that all three of you go.  There are plenty of things that DH and DS to do even on the day of the wedding and then you can spend time together.  Some of the things we love:

- Powell's bookstore is fantastic (the main one).  Also, Wednesday afternoons they have a book reading that's fun.  My kids LOVE books (punishment for them is not having books read to them throughout the day).

- If you have rental car, take a drive out to Multnomah Falls and/or other lookout spots in the Columbia River Gorge.  Multnomah falls is about 30-45 minutes drive east of town and beautiful.  And there are plenty of safe off-road paths to run along for the little guy.  We didn't make it last year due to a busy schedule, but our kids love waterfalls, so we hope to get back out to take them to see Multnomah Falls.  We took one day and drove out the Columbia River Gorge to Hood River (just over an hour from Portland), stopped by a farm where we got fresh homemade jam and picked some fresh fruit, had lunch and then drove back on the scenic route stopping to see the various scenic overlooks (several breathtaking views of the river gorge), waterfalls, and beautiful nature.  ([url]http://traveloregon.com/trip-ideas/scenic-byways/the-historic-columbia-river-highway/[/url])

- If you bring your son, Portland's Children's Museum is a lot of fun for the young ones.  We spent about 2.5-3 hours there and they did NOT want to leave and go home for nap, but we had to.  We did appease them by having lunch in the little cafe there and then letting them go back and play for 15 more minutes before going home.  The worst part about this was trying to get them out of the building.

- Portland Zoo is nice, but unfortunately right now, one of the attractions for our kids, the train, is not operating.  They're rebuilding the zoo and track and it won't be open until November.

- Visit the International Rose Garden or the Lan Su garden.  My father's family is originally from SuZhou and I visited once when I was a teen and this really feels like a SuZhou garden.  Lovely.

- It's a little out of the way, but if you like Aquariums, Portland has a fantastic aquarium including places where they have plexiglass tunnels built under the big tanks and you can walk down looking at the marine life swimming around you.

- If you're a beer drinker they have a ton of local  micro-breweries and a number of good places where you can sample the Oregon brews.

- Another day trip option is to go West out to Seaside.  We loved visiting Seaside, had a great lunch out there, visited the little mall with the historic carousel (our kids loved that).  There is also a little beach-side Aquarium where you can buy a little dish of sardines and feed seals.  At first they didn't like it, but they LOVED watching the seals swim and jump for the fish.

Just a few of the things that we've done with and without kids.

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