Oregon Trip

We are back after spending a week in Oregon. It was so fun, we have been to Portland before a couple of times, Jimmy served his mission there so he likes to go back. This time we stayed on the coast, Seaside OR, in my parents condo. Much like the weather here today, raining and cold, was how most of our time there was, not too much rain but overcasted. It wasn't too bad if you had a jacket on and some days were nicer than others. The rain came the day we left. The first day there, we just walked around the coast and hung out. We made a lot of long car rides to see all the different sights. It was fun to explore the area and see everything. This place is so green. We hiked to a lighthouse called Cape of Disappointment. We drove into Astoria, OR, where the Goonies house is which you can't get to, and there was a bridge that we went across over a river, and we ended up in Washington, crazy the state line was in the middle of the river. We went to the Seaside Aquarium and to the Tillamook Cheese factory, holy cheese, huge blocks of cheese that they cut into smaller blocks of cheese and then package it. So we bought cheese and crackers and of cousre ice cream, and to Ecola State Park to see a lighthouse and they had a huge rock in the ocean that was a safe haven for sea lion seals. You could hear them and see them through a telescope. We drove to Seattle to watch the Mariners play, the highlight of the trip for my dad. We saw the Sapce Needle, didn't go up though, and walk around the park they had there. We drove the Columbia River Route, here they had a ton of water falls to look at, most you had to hike into. All in all the trip was a fun trip. We did some shopping and ate some good food. Hailee did really well with the trip and seemed to have fun.