Oregon Coast

We went to the beach for a few days this summer.  We stayed in a beach house with my sister and her family.  Here is Emma walking around the neighborhood with me.

Hooray cousin time!  There was a fun game room in the house.  
Here are Emma and our nephew, Gideon, playing foosball.

Video games!

Pool

Lots of us had fun using the hot tub

The weather was not perfect beach weather, but we had a good time.  On the first evening there we went to check out the beach by the beach house and it was so cold and windy!!

I didn't last long on the beach that evening.

Neskowin Ghost Forest

Another day we had fun in Neskowin.  I wanted to see the ghost forest.  Here we are looking at an old tree trunk.  This forest had slid (or something) into the sea about 2000 years ago and was covered by sand.  It was only recently uncovered.  Here we are looking at some of the stumps.  You can see baby Enoch, my sister's new baby, in the baby carrier.

Another stump

You can see some of the stumps sticking out of the water - they are slowly getting weathered by the ocean.

Another stump - it was pretty cool to see.

You can see some of the stumps here - they look like little rocks peaking out

And here are lots more stumps!

Fun climbing on Proposal Rock (I think that was what it was called)

We had a fun time there - although it was a bit cold.

The Devil's Punchbowl

Another day we went to the Devil's Punchbowl area.  We had fun climbing on rocks and exploring tidepools.

Inside the punch bowl

This fills with water when the tide is high

Lots of tide pools to explore

We had fun playing and exploring there.

Seal Cove

Spying on some seals

So far away

Depoe Bay

We walked around downtown Depoe Bay a little bit and looked for whales.  We didn't see any whales but did see some boats heading out.  We also got to see salt water taffy being made, which was lots of fun.  And of course, we ate some salt water taffy.  We had a fun time!  My sister has a new baby so it probably wasn't as much fun for her - and for some reason I didn't get a lot of good grown ups pics but we were all there.

Scott had to work every night of our vacation.  At least he was free during the days.

Yes, here he is using two computers - regular job and AF reserve stuff.

Here are all the cousins on our last morning!

Axel, John, Enoch (the new baby), Magnus,  Anna, Matthew, Gideon, Emma and Grant.

Cousing hugs!!  We had a lot of fun!

On the way home we stopped at the Tillamook Cheese Factory.  Very crowded, but we did get cheese and ice cream.

Tillamook

This is the first time we've made it to the cheese factory since moving here.  So fun!