The End

On Friday, we traveled to Astoria and into Washington State. On Saturday, Jim and I spent time perusing downtown Portland. In the evening, we had a wonderful cookout with Kylie and her friends. It was marvelous! (Sorry Nikki!) We are on our way home at about 1:30. See you soon!

Friday, July 25

Today, we head back to Portland. We will go back through Astoria and see some sights there. At our hotel in Portland, we have to pay $10 per day for internet access so this might be our last post. Here are some pictures of the flora of the area both wild and domestic.. see you Sunday night!!

Thursday Portland

The Air Museum at Tillamook, Oregon houses some amazing artifacts regarding aviation and WWII. We spent much time there perusing and soaking up information. I was unable to get a decent picture that could show the immenseness of this building. It was built in 1942 to hold 8 blimps for military use. One of the amazing bits about it is that because metals begin needed for the war effort, it was almost entirely constructed from wood, even the rain downspouts!!

The first is a P2V-7 Neptune. The second plane isn't a Zero. It is a Ki-43 Oscar and was used towards the end of the war in the Kamikaze flights. The third plane is a P-38 Lightning.

Thursday Portland

Arcadia Beach is a beautiful place to watch the sunset. I enjoyed getting this picture of someone else at play with his camera. Jamie..Does this picture of Kylie crawling on the rocks remind you of the past???

Physical Day 4...

We traveled to Ecola State Park and walked the area traveled by Lewis and Clark. It was pretty cool to find the same berries that helped sustain them in their travels still growing in the rain forest. The light house is no longer in service. They say that only people's ashes are stored there. Ecola is also a popular surfer hangout.

Physical Day 4....

Today, we started the day on rented fun cycles. It was quite tough on the old folks but great fun..

Portland Day 3

For day 3, we decided to check out the coast highway (101). We started at Hug Beach, which is just south of Cannon Beach.

Day 3...

Here we are at Oswald West State Park in our rental Mustang.

This is Kylie multi-tasking after our visit to Tillamook Cheese.

Day 3...

This is the Cape Meares Light house. It was decommissioned in 1961 but was later restored just for us!!

Day 3...

We at lunch at Lookout Beach. The gulls shared their space with us. We ate our Tillamook cheese for lunch.

Portland Day 3

At the end of our day, we stopped at Munson Falls. We are so small and insignificant in the big picture. I couldn't help remembering Kylie and her daring ways last year at Horsetail falls. (It is a Mom's job to worry) To keep me in line, she climbed up this tree!!

Portland Visit

Jim and I traveled to Portland to visit Kylie's world. We ate BBQ upon arrival. On Sunday, we walked around the "Saturday" Market. Sunday evening, we went down memory lane with Tim, Cindy, and Lauren Hayes in Vancouver, WA (and Joanie from Netherlands!!). Tim brought out old pictures and memories for us to share. We are now at Cannon Beach...more updates later!!

Cheerios!!

Joslin isn't too crazy about Cheerios yet... Yes, in the second one, she is gagging!!

Bucks!!!! More Lake Nature

Last night at Kanapolis, we went out on our regular nature photography hunt. We happened upon this social group of deer. There were 4 bucks and one doe. If you look closely, the bucks pictured are still in velvet and have very nice antlers growing. Jim said that he has never seen bucks that big where he hunts during the fall. We only took about 150 pictures. They were awesome!!!

4th of July

We went to the parade in Sterling and then to the lake for fireworks on Saturday.. I still need some lessons on how to take pictures of the fireworks...