Beach Trip

At the beginning of the summer Ryan signed up for a CLE that was being held at Salishan and we thought it would  be a fun weekend away for the family.  Sadly this was the first time the boys had ever been to a hotel and needless to say they were pretty stoked for the trip!  We had envisioned a long weekend playing on the beach, walking around, swimming etc.  Unfortunately it turned out to be the weekend that the coast had one of the biggest storms they have had in years...  The beaches were all closed and it was nearly impossible to walk around anywhere due to the crazy high winds, super hard rain and flooding!  The boys were awesome sports about it, luckily our hotel had a huge indoor swimming pool so we logged some serious hours there and we did manage to make it out a few times between/during the storms!  

Our first stop Friday was the Oregon Coast Aquarium!

Working the seafood market!

Learning about ocean pollution!

On the way back to the resort there was a break in the storm so
we stopped at the Yaquina Bay Lighthouse for a tour!

The boys actually thought this was
super awesome and were really
curious about how the lighthouse works!

I love this one!
Noah by the N and Silas by the S :)
Very appropriate since they couldn't be more opposite!

On Saturday I took them down to the beach.  We
stayed up on the sidewalk since they said to stay off
but the boys thought it was pretty cool anyway!
The wind was so crazy strong that it was pushing them
 along the concrete, crazy!