Portland Holiday Memory

We found this wonderful little animated skating rink, among all the Christmas boxes from the crawlspace, that we've been going through, with an eye to eliminating a significant number of things. I’ve been wondering where it was, for the past few years. I found this treasure at Julia’s gift shop, a few blocks from our hotel in Portland's city center, on one of my many walks around town. I used to bring it out for us to enjoy, during the Christmas holiday. It brought back such memories from our trip to Portland in 2005, to visit extended family for Thanksgiving dinner. We had quite the unexpected medical adventure, during that trip, visiting several of the Kaiser Permanente facilities around the city. We saw Mt Saint Helens pop off a ring of smoke, while we were eating breakfast in the small self-serve buffet on the top floor of our City Center Marriott hotel.