On Friday thanks to twitter we discovered the Fremont Street festival of lights for the first time. It was really fun. We got to hear the a Capella group the Portland Timbre sing. They are really amazing singers and really funny.
We also saw some amazing art work done on playing cards by a local artist named Aaron Trotter. He draws places in different cities and puts them on playing cards.
On Saturday we took Adelina's family to see the Alpenrose Dairy Christmas village. (okay Jorge drove but we showed them the village) This is a really amazing Christmas adventure. They have an old town set up with Story book lane with lots of animals to see and some to pet. There is also an old style opera house that has dancing and movies. This is a must see Christmas adventure and it is free!!! Oh and there is an amazing model train display.
Some people might have called it a weekend at that and stayed in bed all day Sunday after so many adventures already but not the Tomblesons. We keep on adventuring until the work bell rings on Monday morning. Sunday we went to see the Pittock Mansion exhibit on Christmas Carols. This is a beautiful old mansion up on Burnside by Forest park that gets even more amazing at Christmas time. Each room was made up to be a Christmas Carol. The first room took our breath away.
After going through the Mansion we had Siri help us get to a Norwegian Christmas music event over at the Lutheran Church on NE 21st. We go there a bit late but we made it in time to hear some beautiful singing in Norwegian and hear some cool instruments. Afterward there was a reception with the most wonderful and tasty punch and cookies. Adelina's grandma used to make some cookies like these. There wasn't any signs saying only one trip so we went back and back to the cookies.
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