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Here are the pictures from February, 2004 when Amy's parents visited us in Portland, OR.  These are from the 28th and 29th.  We went to the Japanese garden and to the Spirit Mountain casino.


We went to one of my favorite Chinese food places downtown.  I don't know its name, but it's an all you can eat buffet.  'Nuff said.

Besides us, we also met Amy's friends Tina, Joseph and Joseph's daughter Jordan, pictured here with the boys.

Po-Po likes to feed the kids, even if it's Jell-O.

That's Jordan and Tina in the background.  And some Jell-O meeting its doom!

Later on we went to the Japanese garden.  Jarod's standing in front of one of those water timer type things.

They have a couple of those rock landscapes.  This is the largest one.

Here's Gung-Gung strolling along the deck of a cool house overlooking the rock garden.

This is the other rock garden.  It's smaller and secluded.

They have a nice koi pond there.

You can walk along these planks and look down to see the fish.

I've only seen it once, but when they feed the fish, they bang with a staff on a rock by the water's edge and the fish all come running (or swimming, as the case may be).

There's random sculpture all about the park.  Some cranes here... turtles elsewhere... and lots of those little pagoda style huts.

The following day, we took Amy's parents to the casino.  We put the kids in a supervised play area and let the parents go gamble.  Amy & I walked outside.

This is the kind of view you can get from outside the casino.  Not sure why you'd want to stay inside.

They did have a nice arcade that we saw later.  The kids played some games, like neon air hockey.

And last but not least, we have the obligatory random stranger looking dead on into the camera.