Portland International Auto Show

Just as I've done every year since I was two or three years old, my dad and I took a trip down to the convention center for the annual Portland (Oregon) International Auto Show. Every year there are hundreds, maybe thousands of cars at the show, and with my absolute love for almost all cars, I go every year with my dad. When I was little, we went with another family, but even when they dropped out, we stayed faithful! Anyway, there's such a variety and contrast of cars; however, this year with the slowing economy and all, a whole lot of companies didn't even show up! (Nissan, Bently, and Rolls Royce are just some.)Anyway, the Auto Show was really fun, but it's dwindling down each year. It used to sell all different scales of cars (my dad and I really love 1:18 scale) at a huge stand in the lobby, but just about two years ago they stopped. My dad used to always buy me one for my birthday, but now we have to buy them on the web, which is not as fun.Well, no matter how much I love the Auto Show, and will always keep going,just for the fun of it, I would like all readers to know that I was very disappointed with it this year. Basically, I pray that when the economy goes up, so will the quiality of the Portland Auto Show.