Mini Vacation Day #2

  After leaving Lincoln City, Oregon, we headed up to Tillamook.
We visited the cheese factory..............we love Tillamook cheese and ice cream!
What luck; it was customer appreciation day so we got free mini cones with a choice of two of their newest flavors. After touring the factory and tasting several flavors of cheeses we treated ourselves to
ice cream cones.

 It's cheese, Gromit!!

 Aeva had The "Tillamook Mudslide"

 Chris got the Marionberrry Pie..............always a good choice.

 Myles made me laugh because of all the flavors he could choose.........it was vanilla.

It made me smile because it was kind of like having Ben on our trip with us :)

 Rhaevyn and I actually got the same flavor........................Caramel Heath Crunch.

 And Elsa had Oregon Strawberry.

 

 Now that our bellies were full of yummy ice cream it was time for our next destination......Seaside.
The rain was something else on our way there, but it stopped long enough for us to have a nice stroll along the beach.

The kids had a blast running from the tide and collecting seashells.

 

 By the time we were off the beach Elsa realized she had lost most of the shells she had found.
Poor thing did not realize she was dropping them one by one as she walked.
We almost made it on the news except they panned the camera in the opposite direction.
The storm we had was left over from a Typhoon.

 

By the time got back to our hotel from the beach the rain was really coming down. We hunkered down in our room and ate burritos that I had packed (with the fixings). Then the kids had some swim time. After showers it was time for hot cocoa and popcorn.  The hotel we stayed at had free movie rentals. The kids had their own room again with a tv and dvd player. So they got to watch their movie, and Chris got to watch the movie he picked out while I promptly fell asleep.