We ran away to the Oregon Coast Friday for our 11th Anniversary Saturday. It was a very good weekend. We stayed at Seaside, Or and traveled to Cannon Beach and Astoria.
Seaside was nice, but reminded us of Indiana Beach/Santa Monica and the touristy type town that it was. You can tell that it has been a tourist place almost since the founding of it. We couldn’t believe how fine the sand is there. We are use to the coarse sand of Florida and this sand felt silky for lack of a better word. It was chilly and windy, so we weren’t going in, but a lot of folks did. We did feel the water and it was warmer then we expected.
Saturday we headed down to Cannon Beach, for those who have watched Goonies, that is where you see the pirate ship of One-Eyed Willy sails past a big rock. Which is funny because that movie takes place 30miles north in Astoria.  =) But it was so cool to see. We took pictures, which I will be posting as soon as I get time to organize them.
We then drove up to Astoria, because we wanted to cross the very long bridge to Washington.  In Washington we stopped at Ft. Columbia, an old Army Fort. That was really cool to see, how things were built into the ground and how the wild flowers have taken over. Then we stopped at Ft Stevens back in Oregon and you could see Ft. Columbia on the other side of the river.
I love visiting military posts, but that is the Army brat in me. I would so love to go back to APG, MD to see the US Army Ordnance Museum there again. I grew up cross the street from it and haven’t been there since ’84.
I totally blew my diet….icks…gained a pound, but it was worth it, it was our anniversary and damn it, I haven’t had a waffle cone in a long time…grin
We got back Sunday and it was nose to the grindstone, I had a ton of work waiting for me. I finally got some time to work on our own things today. I hope to be able to work on our pictures tomorrow.
Spent the last few hours watching political coverage and speeches. Obama’s was outstanding. Hillary, I think she is still coming to terms with it….because until a pundit mentioned it, I didn’t think about the fact that the Clinton’s haven’t lost since ’80….so they aren’t use to it.
**I’m no fan of this series, but this doesn’t surprise me at all…..in fact it sadness me.
