Adam, Kasey, and their boys came to Oregon this last week for a whale of a time. They rolled into Portland Saturday night and we moved temporally to a beach house in Lincoln City for the rest of the week (A&K left on Thursday morning). The above photo was one of our adventures, taken at Drift Creek Bridge near Lincoln City. This suspension bridge hangs 100 feet above a gorge with a cascading waterfall just to the west of the bridge. Beautiful! The only downer of the event was that Natalee was absent due to food poisioning contracted the night before from Albacore Tuna at Mo's (a local Oregon Coast restaurant).With 9 kids in the beach house, including one child (Matthew) yelling "Moooooom" half the time, things were crazy. Full on lazer tag fights ensued between Oregon and Idaho families spontaneously throughout the week and pillow fights occurred frequently in the older boys man cave in the basement.
Despite the rainy weather, we packed in several activities.
The beach (as seen from the huge deck at our beach house on the day we left - sunny!):
Despite the 100+ steps, including a 6 foot ladder at the bottom, we frequented the beach to play Bocce Ball, fly kits, and eat sand (ok, only Abram did that!):
Trip to the Newport Aquarium (Hudson & Blake):
Playing in the waves:
Searching for sealife in Tide Pools:
Visiting the Yaquina Head Light House:
The kids/cousins clearly enjoyed each other. I love this candid shot:
Our kids enjoyed each other too!
Since Adam and Kasey had to leave a day before us, we snuk down our friends the Blattners for the last night. We enjoyed Bonepile BBQ in Depoe Bay, Bocce ball and kite flying at Gleneden beach, and dodged a few very large waves. Thanks for coming Blattners!
Overall, the trip was well worth the money and time spent planning. It was great to create memories as a family and enjoy having my brother and his awesome family with us too!
This photo is blurry because it was raining hard...lense was a little wet.
