Oregon Trip part 2

Randy and I at the beach

This was a funny sign that we saw while at the beach. It was about if a tsumani hits and how to evactuate the beach.

This statue was right next to the beach and of course I needed a picture with him!

Well after the wedding lunch we had about five hours to kill so we decided to drive to the coast which was about an hour and a half away. We went to a place called Cannon Beach. It was so pretty. Randy and never really seen the Pacific Ocean before with waves and everything. Randy and his dad Blake had a blast while there.

These are pictures of the rocks that were just below Haystack Rock. They had shells and living creatures living in them. There was a lot of moss as well. Blake and Randy got up close and personal.

Randy with the ocean and real waves

This is called Haystack Rock

Our first view of Haystack Rock

When we got to Cannon Beach there was this huge rock and then several other little ones around it. It was such a beautiful beach. We walked along the beach for a about a mile and the sand was so soft. It was really cold and windy on the beach. I took several pictures because I don't know if we will ever be back there again so I wanted to remember it. I took a picture of Randy with the ocean and real waves in the background. He had a blast at the beach. As we got closwer to Haystack Rock we could see that there were many small rocks at its base with lots of sea creatures living there. Randy and his day went to investigate. They saw starfish and many other creatures. We noticed that in the rocks there were many shells and coral reef looking things. They were really cool. Blake and Randy went an talked to some hippie person that was there trying to tell people what to do. Those two were really curious so that went up to ask what type of animals were living there and to ask all sorts of questions. Diana and me just stayed back and walked around the beach and I played in the water and got all wet. We were at the beach for about an hour and started watching the tide come in and the sun set. We had to get back to Portland so we could change again and go to the wedding reception.

At the wedding reception we got to about the last hour. It was really interesting. Mike comes from a very musical family so we watched people sing, play the piano, and sing duets. It was really good I had never seen that before.

We saw the happy couple off and we headed back to our hotel room. We had to get up early the next day to start heading back. We were going to split up the driving on the way back into two days. So we drove to Boise and spent the night and then drove the rest of the way home on Monday morning. In the next post I will show you pictures of the cool stuff we saw on the way home.