Oregon Day 6

Astoria

We drove to Astoria on Monday to see where they filmed the classic movie the Goonies.   

This is the longest bridge ever.... the bridge to no where.  

Here are some better pictures of the bridge.  It actually goes to Washington.  

We had to visit the Astoria tower and Madeline was so excited to climb to the very top.   I was a little worried that she wouldn't make it to the top because I had a hard time when we climbed it back in January.   

I shouldn't have been worried she practically ran up them.   When she got back down she said " Gosh Mom, there was even this old lady who was like 40 who could do it!"

Max and I watching from the bottom.  

 "Gosh that is high."

After we saw everything in Astoria we hit the aquarium in Seaside.  

Here is Madeline with the seal food.  

Yeah, she wasn't so sure she wanted to hold it after she saw what seal food was.  

The biggest lobster ever!

The kids got to touch and feel some the sea creatures.  

That evening I was determined to get our family pictures by the beach.  

I had a new wireless shutter remote that was suppose to take pictures.   Did it work?

Nope.  At least not when I expected it too.  I should have practiced more before the actual moment.  

So I ended up using the timer.  

Here are some random fun ones.   Plus the one on top that is my new header. 

Unfortunately it was a little too dark so they are a little bit grainy.  I am going to see what I can do with them so that I can have a nice one to frame.  

And here is the one that made the final cut.  

Hopefully it can handle being blown up and put on my wall.

Oregon Day 5

On Sunday we went for a morning walk/jog.   It was beautiful.    There weren't very many people on the boardwalk and what people were there Max managed to win smiles out of.  

It must be that glare on his face.

On our walk we saw huge slug.  It was about 3 inches longs and stinky. 

After our walk we loaded up the kid's swimming suits and sand toys and played on the beach for hours.  

Max got buried multiple times.   Look at his little face.  He is not pleased.

Then we buried Madeline and Max loved that.

I watched from the sidelines and soaked up the sun.

Madeline got way more than just her feet buried.   She loved it.

So did Max.

  How can you not love having your sister totally incapacitated so you can throw sand in her face and pull her hair?

My favorite picture of the day!  

His face is priceless!

Oregon Day 4

Day Four

Tillamook, Oregon.

We drove to Tillamook to take the kids to the Tillamook cheese factory and stop at the Tillamook Air Museum.  There was no way we were taking the kids inside the air museum.  Too expensive and they would not have appreciated it.   But they enjoyed seeing how big the building was and the airplane they had outside.   

During WWII they built these massive buildings to store blimps.  They could hold I think up to 8 blimps inside.  I am telling you the building is HUGE.  

Here we are at the Cheese Factory.   We ate lunch there and then we went through the tour.  

After the tour we had to try some ice cream.    

Pretty delicious.

After Tillamook we drove to Cannon Beach.   

And Cannon Beach was

COLD!

Max was pulling up his shorts so they wouldn't get wet.  

After we froze at Cannon Beach we drove north to our destination for the rest of the vacation.... Seaside!

And Seaside was much warmer!  

The thing I love about Seaside is that it seems to be timeless.  It looks the same as it has back in the early 1900's.  The same boardwalk and quaint little buildings.    In fact on Sunday they had a church band come to the beach and they played all these old songs.  It was so fun and like we went back in time.

Max immediately fell in love with the sand.  

Our condo we stayed in.  

Madeline LOVED the ocean.  

And looking for sea shells.

Max's first time in the ocean.  He loved it!

Notice his little hands full of wet sand?

He loves it .  Mom not so much.

We played until Max fell down and got all wet.   It wasn't warm enough that day to be all wet.  So we went back and dried off.

 After we dried off we hit the town.  

We found this quaint little carousel and we had to ride it.  

Max had a blast and screamed his head off when we left.  

This is how you ride a horse.