Day 12 - Onward to Seattle

Before leaving Portland we wanted to check out the famous rose gardens so we set out from the hotel in that direction hoping to find a spot for breakfast on the way. Only after walking for about 15 minutes did we realise that the map we had wasn't to scale and the rose gardens were 6 miles away. Even worse, we still hadn't found a cafe, so we did the obvious thing and headed back towards downtown, stopping at Starbucks along the way (note, when ordering Starbucks, a cinnamon swirl and cinnamon roll are very different things - luckily they're both tasty).

Our second attempt to reach the rose gardens (by car this time) was more successful, although when we arrived we felt a bit out of place, there were as many buses from retirement homes in the car park as there were cars. Nice roses though, Portland is apparently famous as a testing ground for new varieties so there were loads to see.

After dodging zimmerframes for a while we got back on the road and headed up I-5 towards Seattle. It's a pretty uneventful drive so I was bemused that Amy was paying so much attention to the scenery, normally she's either singing along to the radio or 'resting her eyes'. 30 miles of Seattle however Amy suddenly exclaimed 'Krispy Kreme!' and the mystery was solved. She hadn't been looking at the scenery at all, she was on the lookout for a donut shop.

The Krispy Kreme in question was in a mall by the freeway, however we'd passed the junction so it took a 10 minute detour down to the next junction and back up before we pulled into the car-park. Considerably longer than it took to go inside and purchase a dozen assorted donuts.

Then onward to Seattle...