Seaside-Day 5 and drive home

Wednesday, our last full day, we polished off all the leftovers we had and swam at our resort. It was actually pretty chill temperatures the whole time we were there, but our condo was a huge U surrounding the pool, and the water was super heated, so it was still pretty good. We also rented a surrey that evening (one of those bike-car-dealies) to have a last cruise around town. It was a lot of work of course, pedaling for the full hour, but it was fun, and even the girlies enjoyed it for almost the entire time. There was a kid basket seat in the front for them, and even though we had the employee take a picture of us all in it, I found out later that the memory card had been knocked out of place (when we dropped it while riding the surrey :/) and it didn't save. it made me sad-it was super cute. We had dinner at my favorite place overall, Pudgy's. The name sounded pretty lax to me, but it ended up being one of the swankiest places we ate. Oh yes, plus we got ice cream that night. Jeff wanted it the entire trip.

The babes in the surrey.

Now, if that's not the cutest thing you've ever seen...

...then, THAT is! She LOVED that ice cream cone-she's got her tongue out and everything!

Family photo on the beach.

Double first-time-on-the-real-swings event.

Amelie wanted to capture her own memories of the occasion... interesting...

My failed attempt at a timer photo. I twisted my ankle running in the sand, then couldn't get up on the tall swing. :(

Hmm.



We left mid day the next day after packing up and had a pretty uneventful drive home (except that we kept getting in trouble because we kept forgetting that in Oregon, you can't pump your own gas. Big time annoying.) We got home around 3:30 a.m and were happy to be home. Seaside was really a beautiful place, wonderfully lazy and a great time! We'd love to go back (but it may be forever, as there are always new places we want to explore!)
Phew!

Seaside-Day 4

Tuesday, We got up to go to Cannon Beach and Haystack rock, which ended up being awesome! And terrible. It turns out, we parked literally on the opposite side of town from HR, but didn't know it at first and decided to just walk the beach. We played in the sand for quite some time before making the trek, each holding a baby. It was definitely a desert mirage-we walked and walked, but it never seemed to get any closer. We eventually got there and it was another one of our highlights! It was just some crazy giant rock that came up out of the middle of the beach, and for some reason, attracted and supported all sorts of sea life, including puffins and sea gulls. It was very cool to see up close. The walk back, though, was agonizing. We figured we actually trudged 3 or 4 miles through deep, soft sand, holding unhappy babies. Boo. We went back and window shopped a little, as well as took Amie on the carousel. She acted scared at first, and would not let me move an inch away from her, but LOVED it and nearly threw a royal fit when we didn't go again. We ate at McKeown's that day, which was probably my fave, and Norma's that night (fresh seafood!)







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Look how big that thing is!



Alisa was being so incredibly good and happy at dinner, that I had to take a picture, even though my flash wouldn't work.

The carousel. Not that you'll see us. Even though there was nobody around, did that stop the woman from plopping her kid RIGHT in front of us? We were really cramped, both trying to hold our kids. Still fun, though.

Seaside-Day 3

On Monday, we made our way down the coast to Tillamook to go to the cheese factory. We had directions, but of course, no foreknowledge of a road closure and drove like 40 minutes out of or way on the way down (no big, we were listening to a book on CD and the girls were asleep.) We took the tour and tasted their samples. It was actually pretty cool to tour the factory, not to mention making jokes about the workers being like animals at the zoo, watched all day. We also bought some local made berry syrup, too (I know-not cheese.) Then, we headed just a bit further down the way to a french cheese factory, Blue Heron, where we sampled various Bries and all sorts of mustards, sauces, jellies and jams, and ate lunch in their cafe. They also had a petting zoo there (wha?!) and that was probably Amelie's favorite part of the entire trip!! On our way home, we stopped back at Tillamook for some of their ice cream-SO great (and the line was a billion miles long.) You will see, Amie thoroughly enjoyed hers. We had planned on seeing Haystack Rock that day, too, but were running out of gas and didn't find a station til we were back to our place, so we just went home and ate at Bee Bop, an excellent 50's burger joint. Oh, yeah AND since it was the first Monday of the month, we got our 2 free redboxes that night. Don't think we're lame, we still were way off on sleep.






Chasing the birdies!!!!
She really wanted to feed them, but when they'd come up, she'd back away and sort of close her eyes. You had to hold her there and hold her hand/arm, too. But she liked it.


Amie ducked down right at flash.

Mmm is for mess.

Seaside-Day 2

The next day was Sunday, my birthday, but we couldn't locate a church! So, we did breakfast at our condo (and sat through another presentation for a gift card-WITH the girls-NO fun.) Then, Jeff brought a Sunday-friendly movie for us to watch. We had lunch in (sandwiches, veggies, chips) and then took a long walk on the Promenade, before dinner in (french toast and pudding-yum!) I also had a birthday doughnut the night before, since we weren't spending dough that day. We also caught up on much-needed sleep.



She obliterated the remainder of Amie's PB & J.

Loved the deck-so cute!!

All dressed up with no place to go...

Seaside: Day 1 photos

Kaboom!

So stylin'!

From our balcony...

...I know, the Shilo's right there, but we had plenty of beach view.

AND mountains!

Seaside, Oregon

This year, we decided to use our condo points over my birthday and in a place we always wanted to try-the Oregon coast (we have a lot of condos there.) We picked Seaside, reserved 5 nights and Jeff got the time off, no prob. We had a 2 sleeper unit with just the 4 of us, and it ended up being perfect, since we also had the couch and the pack-n-play. (Though I think we'll need at least 4-sleepers from here on out.)
We left (in the car!) Saturday morning at 1:30 am. Jeff went to bed at like 6 so he could be awake for the drive. He made it all the way til like 7 in the morning before I took over! We wanted a large chunk of the 14 hr drive to be while the girls were sleeping, since that would be pretty terrible if they were awake for all of it. It actually worked out great. They were only antsy the last half hour or so. There was, however a different hiccup on our trip there. We blew a tire, and I mean BLEW! No little nail hole here. Jeff and I put the donut on together (I am a super-pro at this from my college days when my car had an alignment problem) then made our way through the middle of nowhere Or. We finally found a town with plenty of auto repair, but no tire stores. We were sent on to Hermiston, where we had Les Schwab replace both our bad tires (another was about to blow.) This was actually hardly an inconvenience, since it was lunch time and the girls needed a break. We just went across the street and ate at a local pizza place (pretty great) and by the time we were done, so was the car!
We got there around 5 pm, moved in and then set out with the stroller to survey the land. :) The condo was right on the beach, and on the main street as well. Seaside is a cute little place where everything is in walking distance, and they have tones of restaurants, shops, carnival rides, the promenade, etc. We ended up eating at Lil Bayou that night, one that we'd been recommended and I had looked forward to. It actually ended up being one of my least favorite. This is probably due to the fact that I wasn't very hungry when we got there, and our girls were TERRIBLE. I think everyone couldn't wait til we left! My clam chowder WAS amazing, though, I don't recommend the fried green tomatoes.

At Lil Bayou, they gave us beads and Amelie loved playing with them the whole trip:



(For some reason, it's not letting me add photos to this post, so I'll continue in the next.)

Should I be worried?

I'm thinking it's time to move mommy's undergarments up from the bottom drawer....

We leke tee eat, eat, eat...

There's a new little ice cream place (Lanta's) that opened up near our house and they were doing half price on their opening weekend, so we thought we'd check it out. Their specialty is frozen custard, and we got the girls a raspberry to try. It was a success. And a pink mess.

Mmm... custard...

Gimme more custard!

Gee, thanks mom and dad! That custard was so good, I'll put it all over my face!!!

What do you mean, it's gone?!

Whoa... custard overload.

The Corn Cob Fiasco

I'm not sure what it is, but both my girls around 6 months old could suck a corn cob until they were blue in the face.

Caught in the act.


They love each other.

She even got corn nobbies all over her legs.


There it is.