We've just returned from what was probably our big family vacation for the year. Michiel starts school again next week, and his schedule is much busier than last year. I don't think he has a free weekend until Thanksgiving.
But our beach trip was awesome, except for the first night and following morning of rain that almost sent us packing...but let's skip past that. We rode bikes to the bay and saw a bald eagle. I stopped to pee and found myself peeing on a snake that was frantically wriggling away from me. Good thing I was already peeing....
On the way up the coast we stopped in Garabaldi for a ride on steam train.
Alexander made a few friends on the playground and participated in the junior ranger programs. He got to use a compass on day and the next learned about horns and antlers.
When the sun finally came out, we had a lovely day at the beach. Alexander and Michiel built a castle that withstood many incoming waves. Annabel had fun running around in the sand and falling down and lying in it. That girl had sand everywhere!
On the way home we stopped at the Tillamook cheese factory. Alexander could have stayed there all day looking down at the factory floor, watching the blocks of cheese move along the conveyor belts, into the octopus machine, etc. Annabel kept pointing to every image of a cow she saw, loudly proclaiming, "Moo! Moo!"
Ice cream. Cheese samples. It was a good vacation.
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