The Epic Road Trip - August 2013 Edition - Day 7 - Voodoo Delights

Waking up in Marysville, Mr P was in a much better mood.

He ate heartily and won the hearts of all of the other diners at the continental breakfast. And he was excited to get into the car. "Go, go, go!!!" he chanted again with toddler glee.

So off we went. We skipped past Seattle and headed straight for Portland.

Now there are a number of reasons for visiting Portland. 

1 - It's a very nice city.

2 - If you've ever caught Portlania on IFC or Netflix (we're avid watchers - to the point of knowing dialogue), you're naturally probably a little curious about the city. If you haven't seen the show, please watch the video below. If you don't find it funny, you're probably not enjoying any of the posts on this blog.

3 - Two words. Voodoo Donuts.

If you don't know what this is - hit Google Images immediately.

This is kind of one of the big reasons we go to Portland:

Now. When you go, the first address on the box is the original store. This is the store we always go to. It's fun and magical and always surrounded by an eclectic mix of buskers. This time it was a dancing gorilla. Yes. You read that right. Dancing gorilla. 

Mr T was anxious to get Mr P away from said dancing gorilla, so I didn't get to snap a photo. Just know that it was epic and awesome.

So - I ordered six of the delicious confections. First - the Voodoo Donut. It's awesome. Second - the Maple Bacon. Yup. Maple. With strips of bacon. Ahhhhhmazing. After that, there were too many to choose from in the rotating display case, so I just told the guy to choose the next four. And he was bang on.

He chose a blueberry cake donut for Mr P. Excellent. Then a Milk and Cookies donut. A delicious concoction on a yeast donut that includes crushed Oreos. And then a Peanut Butter Crunch - another yeast donut slathered with chocolate icing, drizzled with peanut butter and then dipped in Rice Krispies. The final donut was the Devil's Food. It's a devil's food cake donut, dipped in chocolate, decorated with a red pentagram and the hole was stuffed full of chocolate chips. Yum!

We were so excited to dig in, I didn't take a photo of all of the donuts. Just what was left when we got to our campground - Paradise Point in southern Washington State.

We've stayed at this campground before. It's just off the highway, but super nice and has some nice and easy hiking so Mr P can enjoy it too.

We also got there early enough to have some time doing fun things with Mr P, like playing smash up derby with his Matchbox cars.

We went to bed a little later that night, but that was okay, because it was just a short drive to our first destination the next day - the Seattle Museum of Flight and Boeing Field.