Showing posts with label summer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label summer. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 03, 2011

North Oregon Coast

Camping at the coast must start with salt water taffy and Seaside was the perfect stop before we set up our site at Ft. Stevens SP. We each picked lots of our favorite flavors and ended up with sick tummy's from all the sugar!



We went on the bumper cars....


And when we got to the ocean... we found some good friends there who taught us a thing or two about skim boarding.


We played around sunken shipwrecks...

Spent the evenings and mornings here...


Ate a new treat called "Woofums"...

Master Chef...

Hiked the Astor column to launch glider planes.
Who would have thought the kids would end up in tears after they threw their planes off?

Played into our inner child and gawked at the Goonies house...

Waited for the Trolley to come and take us on a grand tour of Astoria...

Believe it or not... this is the place to get the best Fish and Chips you'll ever eat! We waited for 30 minutes in line.. and I'd do it again!
Played as a family...

Ate some sand for dessert...


Found "Battle stations" to let our imagines go WILD!

And had special time on "Simon and Mommy's" beach!


We didn't even get to see all that we wanted to. I guess we'll save the rest for next time!

The way we celebrated

For our anniversary we ran away for a night. We went hiking in the Gorge and then stayed the night at Skamania Lodge. LOVED IT!!!!!!

Here are a few pictures to remind me of the sweet and memorable time we had.

Saturday, June 25, 2011

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Sand castles

I have a double dog dare for y'all... Can you make a sandcastle as cool as ours?


Corpus Beach Pano from lee bonfiglio on Vimeo.


Watch this a few times and watch our superhero moving around.
Thanks Lee... Your video skills are pretty, ok.

Saturday, September 25, 2010

Texas or Bust!

The Lone Star State beckoned us a few weeks ago!!!
I've never had a reason to visit this state, until Lee and Sarah moved there, and believe it or not.. I'd go back!!!

It was SUPER HOT when we landed in San Antonio. We didn't last long, and there weren't many people out because they all were smarter than us! It was not a day to be outside!

Hello Alamo!!



We traveled quickly away from land, and went straight for the beaches!!! This is pretty much where we stayed too. The boys were so happy building sand castles and surfing.



With all the heat, humidity, water and castles...
we would crash at night telling stories on the couch.

we got goofy too...

then went back to the beach...


We visited a real air craft carrier.. and the boys now will not stop obsessing over jet planes!


The Texas State Aquarium put ours to shame!! We played with crab, anemones, turtles, watched a dolphin show, and even pet sting rays.




But we didn't last long in the heat, so back to the beach .. to surf!

We mini-golfed...


surfed...

Visited museums...


surfed...


built more castles..

and even played instruments.

Big thanks to Lee and Sarah for bringing us down! We cannot wait to do it again! We miss you already.