To the beach

After visiting with the Reynolds in Portland, we headed to the Washington coast to stay at their place in Long Beach, Washington.

I was feeling better, but not up to much. We grabbed a pizza and headed out on another long drive – sounds messy and the kids were really good and inhaled the entire pizza. (along with Jeff’s help)

As we made our way to the bridge from OR – WA, FLASHING LIGHTS…….ugh. This was after having a lengthy discussion of how Jeff and his cousins (Lovegrens) never get out of tickets.

She was a nice officer, told him to slow down and could obviously tell we were from out of state. I couldn’t tell if we were still in OR or WA. (had just crossed the Astoria bridge, still in OR)

Finally found our way to the trailer and collapsed for sleep.

Next day the sun actually was shining – Jeff took #1, 2 and 3 to the beach while #4 and I stayed indoors watched movies and read books. And slept – A LOT.

They walked, walked, walked and walked some more. Made sand castles, wrote in the sand, Jeff has antlers like Rudolph and tried to hike to a light house. On the way back to the car, a nice couple picked them up on the beach and drove them the rest of the way – several miles. Just in time for another storm.

 

We watched a LOT of movies, did puzzles and enjoyed being on our schedule of no schedule at all and just our little family. Saved a bear with CPR, ate yummy food and watched Toy Story 3, Scooby-Doo, Tom and Jerry – good investments.

Christmas Eve,  we headed east to Richland to stay with my sister’s family for a week. So long Washington Coast – we’ll be back – hopefully during a little warmer time of the year.

That was the bridge we just crossed from WA back to OR and yes MORE rain.