Dear Liza,
There is another fun reason to explore downtown Portland!
The city has teamed up with Laika, (the film company that made the stop-motion masterpiece ‘Coraline’) and local artists to create “Coraline’s Cat Trail.”
This series of 31 cat sculptures, all based on the Cat character in ‘Coraline’, has each been painted by a local artist and installed in public areas around town. Most of them are near downtown, but some are by OMSI or the Rose Garden.
Auntie Bridgett and I caught the #15 last Sunday, to see what we could find.
There is a website with good directions, but we used the more easily available, but less accurate, map. So there was a certain amount of guesswork.
We only managed to find 6, but it was so fun chatting with other cat-hunting folks and seeing our lovely downtown come back to life, that we didn’t mind.
There will be lots of Sundays to find more.
Love,
Grandma Judy
Dear Liza 