Sunday, July 29, 2012

800 miles and a beach

We're back! And we made it in one piece!

On Thursday morning, we set out on our first official "summer vacation" to Lincoln City, OR!  Although we didn't get to escape Oregon, we were 390 miles away from home, so that was good enough! :) so, beginning super early on Thursday morning (4 am, to be exact), I was awakened by my alarm. Which not only got me up, but reminded me that we had another 4 hours to go until we could start our vacation. I unfortunately had to open the Fitness Center this morning and had to stay until 8. The morning dragged by as usual, and then it was 8 o'clock and Josh pulled up with Landen to pick me up from work! I hopped in, we stopped to get some drinks, and then were on the road!

All was well! Josh and I singing along to the radio and Landen happily occupied watching A Goofy Movie in the backseat. We made our first stop in Boardman, where we were waiting to meet up with Josh's dad, Tony, and my new little sisters, Dani and Brenna :). We pulled up next to the Columbia river and found a walking path to waste some time while we were waiting.


Ya know how every time you're going somewhere important you end up forgetting something? Whether its your notes for a meeting, a towel to the pool, or deodorant on a date? Well this trip was no exception to that unfortunate rule. Just a few minutes after this picture was taken, it came to our attention that we had forgotten Landen's bag of clothes for the trip! So, with a quick stop to a Walmart in Hood River, we were back on the road, anxious to get to the coast!Landen kept himself busy the rest of the drive...
After a seemingly endless 8 hours since we left our home, we finally made it to this wonderful view!

And now, please enjoy these quick snapshots of our 2 full days at the beach :)! (I did have LOTS of videos on our video camera, but alas I am too lazy to put them onto my computer and then onto my phone.)





Up here ^ you will notice that we are standing in front of a cement dock. This dock floated all the way from Japan after the tsunami hit last year. It's currently at Agate beach near Newport, and we heard rumors that they were destroying it today and taking it off the beach...but we aren't sure. Anyways! It was 60 feet long! Pretty huge!



Well, that was the last night of our trip :( Our drive home was less than eventful. Although we did find that Landen tried feeding his PB sandwich to his puppy...
We made it home safe and sound, and were SO relieved to finally be out of the car! Josh and I decided that Landen handled the drive a lot better than we did...I guess we'll need to work on that. Haha I loved this weekend and getting to hang out with my new Carlton family :) and meet more family for the first time! Now let the countdown begin to our California vacation! :) 39 days and counting...
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