Rare day

It is rare on the Oregon coast to have a morning that is clear of clouds. This morning was one of those mornings. I got up for a run and it was beautiful and sunny!

I ran three with Michelle. After, she headed to the beach for a cool down and I went back to the house to meet Olivia so we could run three more. Olivia is doing a great job training for her first year of junior high cross-country.

Today was expected to be rainy, the worst day of the week. Plans changed when we woke up to see the sun. We decided to take the kids to Astoria to check out some of their cool sites.

We started with the Astoria Column. You can climb the spiral staircase to the top and throw off gliders. It was really cool and a great view from the top.

The Column is at the top of the Astoria hill with a great view of the Columbia River. We had a great picture all set up of the kids and Steve couldn't help himself to photo bomb the set up.

Next, we set our sights on the goonies house.

Apparently the new owners don't care for visitors.

After that, we decide to head back to Seaside for lunch. We choose my favorite place, the bagel shop!

When we return to the house the sun is shining and it is time to hit the beach!

Skylar stayed behind with Heather to help with dinner.

Dinner was to be Heather's famous chicken noodle soup.

When we came up from the beach it was happy hour and almost time for dinner.

I had my first try at making mojitos and Rob finally got his printer delivery. Seems like every year we end up with a delivery from UPS to the house for some Amazon item.

Happy hour was delicious and so was dinner, of course. Afterwards, it was time to head back down to the beach for a Beach fire and Smore's.

Michele brought lanterns for the kids to light and let off the beach. It was cool to see them float away in the dusk light.

To finish off a near perfect day we went back to the house to have the apple pie that Heather and Skylar had made. It was delicious!