This weekend turned out much better than we had planned. On Friday we left for Portland to meet up with Michael's dad. We had looked at the weather forecast for Yachats, OR and it said rain, t-storms, etc for the whole weekend. So we planned for a wet time there. On Saturday morning we drove down to Eugene to drop off his dad's car at the airport. Michael's mom was flying in there from CA and she drove the car to meet us at the beach. After we dropped off the car we headed to Newport. When we got there we were shocked. The weather was so nice!!!! It was in the 60's and barely windy. We got some lunch at our favorite fresh fish stand and then it was on to the Yaquina Bay Lighthouse. Arianna and Ethan had a blast. Ethan loved just running around. When we first got there he went up to the fence and looked at the ocean and said "Oh, Wow!" It was so cute. Then he ran around just laughing and yelling and having fun. Arianna convinced Michael to walk up the Lighthouse with her. It was her first time doing that. It was 111 steps up and she got buttons saying that she made it to the top. Michael's dad and I kept Ethan busy running around while we waited for Arianna and Michael. He practiced his steps up and down. After they finished with the lighthouse we walked down to the beach. Unfortunately the tide was coming in so we couldn't really look at the tidal pools, but there were the seals and there was also a mom seal nursing her baby. Very cute. Ethan loved it down there. He sat on the rock beach and played in the pebbles. Then it was time to go. From the lighthouse we headed down to Seal Rock and the beach there. We went to that beach last year and it was where the fort was - of course that was gone this year. We had some buckets and shovels for the kids to play with. Ethan had a blast in the sand. Arianna headed directly to the water to go wading. The water was sooo cold. I guess I was spoiled in Hawaii and all the warm water. Anyways Arianna had a blast. Michael's mom met us there at the beach and waded in the water with Arianna. Arianna then tripped as a wave came in the she got all wet but she loved it. While we were there a group of around 15 pelicans came flying by. We normally see a group of 4 or 5, but this group was huge! The weather started turning cooler and some clouds were coming in so we decided to head down and check into the hotel.
The hotel we stayed at is the Overleaf Lodge. We love this place. It sits on the waters edge above all of these rocks that you can climb down on and look around. When the tide is out there are tidal pools, rocks covered in mussels and starfish, crabs, etc. It is fun to climb around and see what is there.
The next day we walked around the rocks in the morning and then headed out to the aquarium. After the aquarium we went to Newports bayfront to walk around and have some lunch. After lunch we decided to take a boat out to see if we could see any whales. Arianna had a blast on the boat. She even got to drive the boat, throw out some crab pots, catch some plankton, etc. The captain even let Ethan drive the boat. Ethan was a little bit of a terror on the boat. He would not sit at all and was constantly walking around. We didn't see any whales, but we saw some sea lions and harbor porpoise. Arianna helped pull up the crab pots. There were some crabs in there as well as a star fish. After the boat ride we went back to the hotel to relax for a while. Michael's parents went out by themselves and we had some dinner and came back to get the kids to bed. Again the weather was wonderful!! We were sooo lucky to have such nice weather.
Monday after lunch we headed back to home :( We were all very sad. We love the beach so much. Arianna kept asking why we couldn't live there. We told her we wish we could.
We will now have another busy couple of weeks. Michael is going to have his friends come up to help finish the sprinkler system, then we have dinner with Jenny, Bryan, Gabe, and her family on Saturday. Then Arianna has Pre-K graduation on the 13th. She has her performance for dance/gymnastics on the 20th, and Michael's parents come up that weekend because his dad has a conference. Then the following Friday we leave to go home to Montana to meet up with my family for the week.
We will post some pictures soon of our weekend!
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