Day 9: August 17, 2014:
We slept in a little bit this morning – 7:10am? Ryan and I
worked on the puzzle a bit more then I went for a 4 mile run while the kids and
Nick went down to the playground and skate park.
Man my legs were so sore from all that hiking
that I couldn’t make the whole run without walking for part of it. But along the walk I got to eat 3 wild
blackberries just randomly growing on the side of the road. We all made it back to the house, had lunch
then got in the car and headed south.
Before we hit Girbaldi (a town on the way) I reminded Grant that there
would be a white G up on the side of a hill.
We made a big joke about the name of the town and renamed the town
Gerbil and made up some funny country lyrics and sang it with a nice twang. The kids were hitting each other the whole
way down (not uncommon) and I got sick of telling them to stop so Nick and I
just declared that they could beat the hell out of each other. Wow.
It got bad. Ryan hit Grant so
Nick told him to defend himself and hit her back so she hit back as hard as she
could and that was it – total mayhem.
Both kids were screaming, crying and we were getting lectured on what
bad role models we were. Ryan told us
she hated us both and on and on and on.
I honestly was trying as hard as I could not to crack up. But I must say that the fighting
stopped.
We drove 8 or so miles south of
Tillamook to the Munson Creek Falls. The
hike itself was only ¼ mile back but it was closed off and we couldn’t get the
same great view of the falls that we’d gotten the other time we’d done the
hike, either 2 or 3 years ago. The falls
are supposedly 300+ feet tall, making them the longest waterfalls in all of
Oregon. Very hard to believe.
We then headed over to Cape Mears and saw the Octopus tree
again. It was about 20 degrees cooler up
there, windy, foggy and raining so the kids and I were freezing. After the Octopus tree, the kids and I got
into the minivan and waited for Nick to go check out the Cape Mears light
house, then it was on to Tillamook.
Oh my gosh, it was crowded – crazy crowded. They weren’t even “making” cheese while we
were there so rather than wait in a 30 minute line for ice cream we just headed
back towards Cannon Beach. Grant was so
upset that he started crying but then fell asleep. We did find a place to stop in Rockaway
Beach, another Picnic Basket candy store just like in Cannon Beach so we
stopped and all got Tillamook ice cream.
It was very nice.
We drove back up the coast to Cannon Beach and are now
packing up and running one final load of laundry before we head to dinner. More to come….
We ate at Tom’s Fish & Chips. It had been opened for 2.5 weeks and it
wasn’t too bad. We all got burgers and
fries. The kids walked down to Bruce’s
candy store one last time, all by themselves and were very proud of that.
We watched a little bit of Frozen and went to bed.
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