Seaside, OR

Here we are ... Seaside on the Oregon coast!

We really look forward to our family getaway every year. Janelle chose Seaside this year ... a nice change and really a great choice! We met our friend Valerie from Seattle on Saturday. The weather was great - we watched a Blues concert in Seaside, walked around town. Janelle was like a magnet to the We're All Ears place... all elephant ears. Janelle's favorite is the original cinnamon and sugar, but there were many choices ... even one that is any two choices you want, which is called Ear Wax ... Eeeew!

After the concert, elephant ear and checking out the town we settled down for dinner at the Creekside Pizza. It was really a nice dinner. We sat at a window seat, overlooking the creek, it really was a relaxing view.

After our humps were filled and settled, we set out for a LONG walk. We were very adventurous ... climbing down the rocks to the water, and walking along the seashore. It was really a great walk and we walked and walked and walked .... really! I was waiting for Janelle to say she was tired, but us adults all looked at each other and then looked back to where our room was and said we should probably turn around. There were so many surf boarders out there in the water, the sun was shining and the breeze was minimal.

We ended the evening with a nice swim in the 90 degree outdoor pool. Ahhhh that felt so good!
Then it was time to dry off, and change into some warm clothes for our evening campfire and s'mores! Yep, that is why they call them s'mores. YUMM

On Sunday, we made a big breakfast of fried potatoes, eggs and bacon and headed for Tillamook, OR. We toured the Tillamook cheese factory. This was a first for Valerie and Janelle. We watched them working in the factory with those big 'ol blocks of cheese and then we got to sample some of them.

Down the road is Blue Heron, which is another cheese facory in a smaller scale, but they had some different samples. Rick and I were lovin' the real blue cheese ... oh yeah! - Good stuff!

Heading back towards Seaside we looked at the beautiful scenery, what a great drive! We stopped in the city of Cannon Beach and sniffed out yet another elephant ear for Janelle while Rick and Val went into the Market Basket for a couple of things for dinner.

Back in Seaside, Val, Janelle and I headed out for a walk on the beach and checked out some of the beach volleyball tournament. Lots of look at there .... *wink*. As we walked along the beach we noticed a couple of helicoptors and were hoping that they weren't there for anything serious. (Low and behold on the news the next morning they had been looking for shark sightings .... YIKES!! I could hear the Jaws music in my head.)
Back at our room, Rick had the fixin's for our taco salad under way. We all pitched in and then sat down to a happy plate of taco salad for dinner.

Then we all went swimming, changed and had our evening campfire and our ration of s'mores and roasted marshmallows for the evening.

Valerie had to leave on Monday, so we got her packed up and joined her at Bagels By The Sea ... what a great place. They have quite the variety of bagles! My favorite was the pretzel bagel with the salt on top ... (dipped into ... of course ... mustard!)