Gilliam Family: Gilliam Family Vacation

Last week we took a Spring Break vacation to Portland and Seattle. Zeb and I love to explore different cities around the country and love the outdoors and wanted to share this with Zander. We left on Saturday morning and flew to Portland and Zander did well on his first flight. It was a 4 hour trip and he slept through take off and for about 45 minutes and we spent the rest of the time finding things to entertain him and he was pretty good for being confined to a small space. We took it easy and just explored Portland's downtown Saturday night. Sunday morning we got to view the city by running a 5K road race across 3 of the city's bridges then spent the rest of the day on a hike in one of the many nearby parks. Monday we took Zander to the zoo and he enjoyed looking at the animals. We drove to Seattle on Tuesday and made a stop at the Mima Mounds state park on the way then finished the day by exploring Pike Place Market and downtown Seattle. Wednesday was spent touring more of Seattle including a trip to the Space Needle. Thursday was a rainy day spent driving back to Portland so we delayed our next hike to Mount Tabor to Friday morning before our flight back to Chicago. Luckily he took an almost 2 hour nap on the flight home then entertained himself playing with the kids in front of us for most of the flight! It was a busy and very fun vacation and Zander was a great traveler and loves the outdoors as much as we do!!