drove After breakfast at the hotel, first to Washington Park, which is also the International Rose Test Garden is located. Portland and the City of Roses is called. Since it was still pretty cloudy and the adjacent Japanese Garden for the first clock at 12 noon opening, we went back in de city. Meanwhile, there were again 19 ° C with sunshine.
The Pioneer Square, where also the oldest building in Oregon, the Pioneer Court House stands, we waited there were 12 strikes. Since then active in this space and the Weather Machine announces the weather for the next day. On a column appear consecutively
different animals, which symbolize the weather, one then stops and announces that tomorrow's weather, by the way still sprayed with water flowing from the tip. Through downtown and Chinatown, we went back to the car and back to the Japanese Garden. This is well designed and maintained on the hills of Washington Park and it also has views of Portland from Mt Hood. Unfortunately, it was a little hazy.
14 clock we left the city to the north to Mount Rainier National Park to drive. Unfortunately, this was the peak of the mountain shrouded in clouds and could only guess that there is such a mountain or volcano, which erupted the last time about 2000 years ago.
Continue our trip to Seattle and went after a stop to eat dinner, we reached the city also to clock 21.15. We stay at the Quality Inn in the City Center, next to the Space Needle. A first trip to the Queen Anne Hill to Kerry Park, we have also done the same. From here you magnificent views of the downtown and the illuminated Space Needle.
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