Awesome Anniversary Trip pictures

So Tyler and I have started an unofficial tradition of going on a vacation every year for our anniversary. This works out because it is on the 18th, and close enough to Thanksgiving that we are usually traveling anyway. So this year Tyler and I decided to go all out because of the little extra money he made firefighting, and the fact we hardly saw each other for 6 months. We decided a trip to the coast would be the most feasable and so for the last few months have been anxiously awaiting our week on the Oregon coast. This is going to be a long, and probably boring, post for most of you, but the pictures and stories are for the grandparents to enjoy.


This was Alex's first real encounter with the sea, and my favorite picture of the whole trip. We were in Seaside Oregon.


This is my second favorite picture. We were sitting on a big piece of driftwood and Tyler is the one taking the picture. It was a cold day on the beach at Proposal Rock.


Ok, so we started our Trip out by driving to Seattle to visit my friend Alice. We had a great time there, riding the ferry, going to the locks, eating fantastic Indian food, and visitng the zoo. If we would have had more money, we would have stayed there for another week! Alice and Bill were fantastic tour guides, between them and our GPS (which saved our lives this trip) we never got lost. I can not express how much fun we had there, I only regret that we didn't go to Pike's market or to see the troll, guess we will have to go back. This is us at the zoo.


Bill and Alice on the ferry. We had great weather the whole trip, it only rained on our last day on the coast when we were leaving anyway.



The picture is a bit blurry, but I thought the back ground looked so great!


Here we are at the locks. That was pretty cool, and they had these weird sculptures we posed with.





We visited a lighthouse in Newport (pictures are not in order). This is a picture of the tide pool beach from the top.







Alex and Tyler looking at starfish at the beach.



Beach and off the the right, proposal rock.








Tyler's favorite part of the trip was driving on the beach, and listening to the Eragon series of books on tape.


I loved visiting the cheese factory in Tillamook. These guys are watching the cheese get packaged.


In 10 years probably the only thing I will remember is all the adventures we had trying to feed Alex in the car.



This picture was taken about 3 minutes before Alex covered her lower half in sand and then face planted. She had sand all over her face and hands and I felt terrible about it! So we ran back to the car and cleaned her up and then bagged the beach for the rest of the day.


Alex and Tyler on Ecola Beach.


Alex loves to "walk".





We ended the coast trip at the Newport Aquarium and got to see all sorts of cool things!





So after about 2 beach trips, Tyler was worn out from hauling Alex around and walking in the cold water, and I still couldn't get enough of the beach. So at one point we decided that Tyler would stay in the car with the sleeping baby, listening to Eragon, and I would go to the beach. I had a great time and found all sorts of treasures, (including the starfish that we eventually threw back) and had some fun playing in the sand.