Rainy Days and Leaving the Beach get me down
Today, we left the beach, but not before we spent a morning and early afternoon there!
We awoke to a angry ocean and wind blown rain. It was actually nice! Not the kind of weather you'd go out in, but still, we are at the beach! Watching the waves roll in...wow!
Uncle Wayne made us all omelets for breakfast, and then it was off to do laundry and clean up and pack up and build a few tables for the sanctuary. A stop for some lunch and we were all ready to go by around 2:30 or 3. Of course, we had to have a family photo before we left, and Aunt Joan's friend Mary showed up just in time! She took our family photo and off we went! (Claire will need to send me a copy of the family photo so I can post it!)
We did get a little (very short) walk on the beach between rain squalls....
We headed off for Portland and a dinner on the Portland Spirit! On the way home, you will be happy to learn (actually, Granddaddy will be happy to learn...the rest of you probably won't care as much! hehehe), we stopped for a quick tour of the Spruce Goose Museum! The place closes at 5...we got there around 4:15!! Enough time to run around and see all we could see and look at the Spruce Goose...did I take my camera...why, of course I did...did it have a fully charged battery? Why, of course not! So, I only got a few pictures! Click on this photo below to see all the photos in the Spruce Goose set!
That plane is HUGE! It was really hard to get some really good pictures of it, but we tried. With a camera that didn't want to participate! I wanted to get something special at the gift shop, but we really didn't have enough time to really look around. So, I bought myself a shot glass for my collection! Sorry Granddaddy! But, look, we had our picture taken with the Spruce Goose (just after we looked inside!)
Leda slept all the way to the museum, and had a fun time running through the museum (and, run we did!) and then she passed out in the car all the way back to Portland...good thing...we were going to be up late!
We got back to the city, dropped off the dogs at Dan's house and off to the boat we went!
What a great dinner! We (Brock and I) haven't been on the boat in probably 5 or 6 years! The dinner crowd was light, the dinner was EXCELLENT! The company, GREAT! Daniel, the Lilly's and the Yates were all together for a nice last dinner before we all went our separate ways! (Aunt Joan and Uncle Wayne stayed down at the beach.) The dinner was really great. Leda enjoyed herself - she was SO good! She laughed and ate (She had her first garlic in the form of a REALLY good homemade garlic bread and she LOVED it!)
After dinner, we took a walk up to the gift shop (which is new to us, they didn't have the gift shop the last time we were on the boat...I think it's new as of the past year or so) and Brock and I got a new fleece pullover and Leda got a Portland Spirit Cinnamon Bear - this year, the boat will have a few cruises on Sundays leading up to Christmas for kids and Cinnamon Bear is the main attraction. He's pretty cute! Leda sure has a good start for her Bear Collection!
Off to the Kingsley home to say our last goodbyes and get us to bed so we could get a couple hours of sleep before that 3:30 AM wakeup call! We had such a great week with the Kingsleys/Lillys/Daniel! We will miss them all until the next time we get to see them!
We awoke to a angry ocean and wind blown rain. It was actually nice! Not the kind of weather you'd go out in, but still, we are at the beach! Watching the waves roll in...wow!
Uncle Wayne made us all omelets for breakfast, and then it was off to do laundry and clean up and pack up and build a few tables for the sanctuary. A stop for some lunch and we were all ready to go by around 2:30 or 3. Of course, we had to have a family photo before we left, and Aunt Joan's friend Mary showed up just in time! She took our family photo and off we went! (Claire will need to send me a copy of the family photo so I can post it!)
We did get a little (very short) walk on the beach between rain squalls....
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We headed off for Portland and a dinner on the Portland Spirit! On the way home, you will be happy to learn (actually, Granddaddy will be happy to learn...the rest of you probably won't care as much! hehehe), we stopped for a quick tour of the Spruce Goose Museum! The place closes at 5...we got there around 4:15!! Enough time to run around and see all we could see and look at the Spruce Goose...did I take my camera...why, of course I did...did it have a fully charged battery? Why, of course not! So, I only got a few pictures! Click on this photo below to see all the photos in the Spruce Goose set!
That plane is HUGE! It was really hard to get some really good pictures of it, but we tried. With a camera that didn't want to participate! I wanted to get something special at the gift shop, but we really didn't have enough time to really look around. So, I bought myself a shot glass for my collection! Sorry Granddaddy! But, look, we had our picture taken with the Spruce Goose (just after we looked inside!)
Leda slept all the way to the museum, and had a fun time running through the museum (and, run we did!) and then she passed out in the car all the way back to Portland...good thing...we were going to be up late!
We got back to the city, dropped off the dogs at Dan's house and off to the boat we went!
What a great dinner! We (Brock and I) haven't been on the boat in probably 5 or 6 years! The dinner crowd was light, the dinner was EXCELLENT! The company, GREAT! Daniel, the Lilly's and the Yates were all together for a nice last dinner before we all went our separate ways! (Aunt Joan and Uncle Wayne stayed down at the beach.) The dinner was really great. Leda enjoyed herself - she was SO good! She laughed and ate (She had her first garlic in the form of a REALLY good homemade garlic bread and she LOVED it!)
After dinner, we took a walk up to the gift shop (which is new to us, they didn't have the gift shop the last time we were on the boat...I think it's new as of the past year or so) and Brock and I got a new fleece pullover and Leda got a Portland Spirit Cinnamon Bear - this year, the boat will have a few cruises on Sundays leading up to Christmas for kids and Cinnamon Bear is the main attraction. He's pretty cute! Leda sure has a good start for her Bear Collection!
Off to the Kingsley home to say our last goodbyes and get us to bed so we could get a couple hours of sleep before that 3:30 AM wakeup call! We had such a great week with the Kingsleys/Lillys/Daniel! We will miss them all until the next time we get to see them!
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