The Beach!!

WARNING: This post contains a ton of pictures. Some of which were taken by Melissa Bell, Spencer Ririe and myself.

We decided to go to the beach for a day. We went to Astoria first and climbed the column.

The pictures on the side tell the story of Oregon.
We bought some planes to throw off the top. I love Melissa's face in this picture.

The wing of the plane

Melissa wrote her name on her plane so that she could find it again.

The column

Mom & Dad at the top

Kimber, Melissa, Mom and I

This picture is out of order but this is us going back down.

Getting ready to throw my plane off. It went pretty far with the help of the wind and to far for me to retrieve.

Spencer and his plane. He didn't really throw his. He just let the wind take it so it didn't go as far as some of the others.

Melissa and her plane.

Kimber

Tom at the bottom

Mom & I

The bridge over to Washington. Try holding your breath across that baby! It is pretty hard.

After the Astoria Column we went for some lunch at the Bowpicker. We heard about it from Erika and Kari. It is a boat on a trailer in the middle of a parking lot.

The fish and chips were quite delicious.

We then went to Ft. Stevens and walked along the beach by the shipwreck. I didn't want to carry my flip flops so I put them in my back pockets.

Melissa & I. She loves to take feet pictures for some reason. :)

The ship

BOO!

Oh yeah I'm so cool! ;)

And of course you have to carve your name in the sand while at the beach.

There always has to be jumping pictures too! This was kind of hard turing for the camera.

Yay for the beach!

Me, Melissa, Thomas, Mom and Kimber

I love just walking along the beach and listening to the waves. I could do it forever!

Me!

We also went to the bunkers (or whatever they are called) and walked around.

Jumping!

Melly :)

Ahhhhh!

In one of the dark rooms. I love how weird I look in this picture. Ha ha!

After Ft. Stevens we drove out to Seaside.

I insisted on going tot he Candyman. They have 170 flavors of salt water taffy which I love!

So many flavors. The had some new ones too. Like black widow which was black licorice and red cinnamon. (Yuck! Melissa loved it!)

I spent $10.40 which is about 2.5 lbs of salt water taffy. So worth it! :)

We also got ice cream cones. 75 cents can't beat that! I got mountain hunckleberry. So delicious!

Our feet again!

I love water! If there is water I am usually in it!

A nice stroll on the beach. It was such a great trip and I am so glad that we went!

Silver Star Mountain

While at home I also hiked Silver Star Mountain with Mom, Dad, Spencer and Kimber. It was a lot of fun! The mountain was covered in mist and there was due on all of the flowers and plants. There were a ton of beautiful flowers!

So much dew!

So pretty!

There were so many flowers! The hike was alonga cliff but because of the mist you couldn't see down which made it less scary I think. Unfortunately it also blocked the view. The view is supposidly amazing as you hike up.

Tiger Lily

Wild Iris

One of my favorites!

Mom, Kimber, Dad and I.

Someone made a rock arch over the trail.

Mom & Dad

You can kind of see the drop off to the right but it is covered in mist

I love the color of these. I'm not sure what these are called though.

Inside out flowers

I thought these were very cute

Lupin

Probably my all time favorite wild flower

There was tons of Lupin on the hillside. It made me happy! :)

The mist cleared for a little bit and we got to see the beautiful sky.

At the tope we sat and ate our lunches and waited for the mist to clear again so that we could see the tops of the mountains. There were quite a few people up there waiting and one of them was this cute dog Dixie. Her owner gave me some of her treats and let me feed her. It was way fun.

This is where we hiked to. That tipy top. If you look close enough you can see two people standing up there. The clouds did clear a little bit while we were up there and we could see the tops of Mt. St. Helens, Mt. Rainer, and Mt. Adams. We didn't get to see Mt. Hood though which was a shame.

This was on the way back down when the clouds had cleared a little more. That peak is where we climbed to.

The flowers were so pretty. It was well worth the hike just for those.