Monday, August 20, 2007

Rainy 30th anniversary day on the Oregon coast














































Today is our 30th anniversary! We can't believe it's been that long. God has richly blessed us and we feel like His loved and spoiled kids for sure. It has rained and been foggy all day, but we didn't let that stop us from exploring. We headed south to Depoe Bay right after breakfast where we saw whales spouting from the shoreline. That's also the world's smallest harbor and we took the picture of the fishing boat heading into it. We veered off the hiway for a piece and stopped at some other cool spots - Devil's punchbowl, which you see in the pictures, was carved out by the tides when they come in - also saw more whales spouting there. Then we headed further south to Newport and walked along Nye Beach where we're standing with my dripping, straight hair. After rinsing off my sandy feet, we headed to the harborfront in this city. There's a winding street with old houses, stores, and restaurants. We ate at the famous Mo's - made famous for their world renown chowder. I'm not a chowder lover, but this stuff was excellent. It was right on the water, so we watched all sorts of boats come in and Doug spotted a sea lion. Afterwards, we watched on the pier as a fellow loaded his crab cage - not sure if that's what you call it, but he loaded it with chicken wrapped with bacon, dropped it into the ocean and then we waited for 15 minutes and sure enough - he pulled it up and out came some crabs.
We headed back to Lincoln City where we decided to do some outlet mall shopping to stay out of the continuing, misty rain. I seem to gravitate to the baby stores these days! Then, because we loved Mo's so much at lunch, we headed to the Mo's in Lincoln City and enjoyed more fish and another GREAT place to watch the ocean - we weren't disappointed, since we got to see seals playing out in the water all meal long! Pretty great way to spend our day. We'll be checking out the hot tub shortly!

2 Comments:

At August 21, 2007 at 1:38 AM , Blogger Shauna Archer said...

Happy anniversary to you! What outstanding pictures - it all looks absolutely breaktaking. I can't wait for your first report of seeing little Jaxton tho'. That will be a great story for the blog :)

 
At August 21, 2007 at 6:40 AM , Blogger Tarasview said...

30 years... wow. happy anniversary! Say hello to the coast for me :)

 

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