Day 1 of Our Mini Vacation

 The kids completed their first 12 weeks of school, so we took one week off
to let them have a brief break, and at the end of that week we took them to the
Oregon Coast for a few days.
Our fist day we drove to Newport, Oregon.
There we went to a lighthouse museum and to Cobble Beach.
It is so named because of the plethera of cobbles...............
lava that went into the ocean, got tumbled about and now cover the shoreline of this beach.
They are black round stones. It makes it very hard to walk along the beach.
There were tons of flies, and we learned that there was a better beach with another lighthouse to see
a bit farther south. Well we know for next time the place to go.

I took this pictures because I love the color perwinkle.

Who knew they were  actual little creatures?

 

 Caught some sea lions sun bathing.

 

 Myles found a caterpillar and couldn't pass him up.

 

After trying to quickly consume our picnic lunch while swatting away flies,

we drove down to the Newport Aquarium. Chris really wanted to see this place. We had a great time getting up close to the exhibits.

 

 

 

 

 This sea anemone was really neat. The kids and Chris enjoyed letting it give their
fingers a hug.

 The shark tunnel was very cool. Myles loved all the sharks he was able to spot.

 After spending the day in Newport we drove up to Lincoln City.
On our way there was stopped at The Sea Hag and had dinner.
They had the best clam chowder bowl.
The kids spent time in the pool and then had hot chocolate and popcorn
in their own room with their own tv watching Lego cartoons.

 

 

  All in all we had a pretty good day with beautiful weather.
We were ready to get some sleep and head out to Tillamook and Seaside the next day.