Skywatch in Portland, Oregon

Yesterday, Jerry and I were tourists in downtown Portland. When we were in the business district, I saw a really tall building, and I said, Hey, let's go up to the highest floor of that building and take a picture of whatever we can see from the window. It was the Wells Fargo Building and we later learned that it is the tallest building in Portland. It was a very new, very sophisticated, marble-floor-and-walls, state-of-the-art kind of building and it was definitely all business. There weren't exactly crowds of tourist-type people in it. It was quiet and cool. We had no idea how many floors it had and the directions said to push the floor number on the keypad that had digits 1 through 0, and then it would display the letter of the elevator door that we should stand in front of. There were about 8 elevator doors, each with a capital letter next to it. So I pressed 9. The display read "B," so we stood in front of B. It took us silently to the 9th floor. A nice lady there explained how to get up to the top floor: Do the same keypad deal for the 21st floor, then go around to another group of elevators....anyway, eventually we got to the top floor, the 38th floor and only one of the two offices was open. The people working there kindly let me go into a room with huge windows and snap the photo you see below. We could tell they thought we were weird.
So here is a view of Portland and the Willamette River (pronounced wil-LAM-it) taken on the 38th floor. Double click on it for the full effect. I showed the ladies what a great shot it was and what a great view they have, and they agreed. I apologized for interrupting their work and thanked them profusely for letting me take the picture.

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