A final trip to the Coast

Once we learned we'd only have about a month before we left Washington we thought it only fitting that we take one final trip to the coast - we will sure miss having the ocean so close.  So we took the kids out of school and headed off to the coast over conference weekend.

We went first to Cannon Beach, the tide was low so we had a fun time checking out tide pools and all the little creatures.

The kids couldn't contain themselves and were playing in the water when the next thing you know they're getting knocked down by waves and are soaking wet and freezing - it wouldn't be a beach trip for us if this didn't happen on the very first stop :)

There was a bunch of college students having a sandcastle contest - Halloween themed- there were some fun sculptures.

After Cannon we headed up to seaside with high hopes of finding some Sand Dollars to take home - we found tons of Sand Dollar pieces but had no luck finding a whole one.

We had fish and chips for lunch and continued north through Astoria to our final destination Long Beach WA.

We found our little rental, cleaned up the sandy wet clothes at a laundromat & grabbed some tacos & thai food for dinner (quite the combo, huh?!)

On Saturday we got breakfast to go & ate it in our little 'house',  watched the first session of conference then checked out the Cranberry farm, they sell all of their cranberries to Ocean spray - it was fun to see the fields of cranberries.

 How many people can you fit in a Double bed?? :)

We grabbed a 'devil dog' from the bakery on main street then went to Marshes Museum & LeGrand was a sport and took the kids to the Fun Zone.

Then we watched the second session of conference and the older two and I headed off to the beach while LeGrand stayed with the sleeping little ones.  After a while they joined us - it was a bit cool and extra windy but the kids could've cared less as they played in the sand and water.

Then we grabbed Pizza for dinner and the kids had ice cream & watched a movie before bed (as if we hadn't had enough TV for the weekend!)

Sunday we watched the First session of conference then headed for home - it's such a beautiful drive from the coast to Vancouver, I'm going to miss it terribly!!

We got back home just in time to catch the last session of conference - what a great weekend!