Jill's Journal: Our last full day in Portland went out with a bang. Rob had been itching to visit the Portland Art Museum, not because it’s the seventh-oldest museum in the United States, but because it had a special exhibit this summer called “The Allure of the Automobile.”
Rob was in a state of man happiness as we oohed and aahed over the world’s rarest and most exotic cars worth millions of dollars. These particular vehicles, some of which are the only ones of their kind, were shipped from all over the world for this exhibit. Rob could tell you what each one is named and about 5,000 intimate details about each one we saw, but since I do most of the blogging and not him, I’ll just say they were really fancy and incredibly luxurious. I do remember names like Corvette Sting Ray, Aston Martin, Bugatti, Alfa Romeo, Duesenberg, Bentley, Ferrari, Pierce-Arrow, Tucker, and Jaguar. And there were more, with names I’ve never heard of, but my female brain hit man-domain overload before I could record them in my personal memory bank.
Rob’s favorite was the Mercedes-Benz 300SLR, shown immediately above. In fact, this particular car was the number one reason we went to the Portland Art Museum. He had been hoping to see this car since he was a teenager.
Suffice it to say that it was a fantastic exhibit, made all the more fun by Rob’s excitement to be there. I loved it and the girls had fun too.
We waited until today to go because the streets immediately around the museum were closed for a special Mercedes and BMW car show. Rob’s Dad had some really amazing old Mercedes once upon a time (including a Gullwing!) and it was a huge treat to see some of those identical cars.
The girls got rewarded for behaving so well by doing the one thing they’ve been requesting to do again and again in Portland: a return visit to the Children’s Healing Art Project. They got to do more art and the two little ones made sure to add their handprints to the window near Erika’s. It was a super day and a grand finale to our wonderful time in the city of Portland.
2 comments:
Nice wheels, glad you had a good time. We don't see enough fast cars here to really appreciate the art and science that goes into their creation.
Love the girls hand art on the back window of the museumn. The fact that Erika's hand print was still there is impressive.
FYI Reno is due to open a new state of the art children's museumn late this summer very early fall. It has a three story with platforms all netted rock climbing mountain just for children. May want to check it out when at Tahoe.
Love to you all,
Mom W.
Andee, the girls were so thrilled to see that handprint (and some of their other art) still intact! Really a treat.
Thanks for the Reno tip -- we'll have to check it out!
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