I can't believe we pulled off 2 weeks on the road! The trip totaled SLC to Wenatchee to Portland, down the oregon coast, through redwood national forest, down the middle of ca to stockton CA, back over to San Fran, up through San Rafael to Reno to SLC. *phew* Did you follow me?
I've lost track of which days we did what and so you'll just get the hall of fame version.
Ready? (See Golden Gate?)
(One of my least favorite things about blogspot is it uploads your pictures backwards. So looks like we're going this review in reverse)...
Jelly Belly Factory, Fairfield CA
So very cool. We went on several 'tours' on the trip and Jelly Belly's rocked. Just like you would imagine a willy wonka factory tour would be. Machines wave, bright colored walls, huge plastic candy pieces hanging from the ceiling, free samples. Great!
Angel's Camp CA - World Mark Resorts.
This is good. The night before we got to stay at the time share our air mattress went flat. Lucked out. We spent 2 nights at the time share with hot tubs, microwaves and flat screens. Spoiled, I know. One of the days - we set out on a mission to find this specific board game - Agricola. Fun game - and this picture is the one time I won. I WON. I never win - and I ran around the room and captured the winning moment. :) Wha ha. (Muffins - it's the new catan... oh yeah).
2 full days were spent driving down the Oregon and California coast. So beautiful. My favorite was the ocean and I made ben pull over when ever we could. Probably because I grew up in the desert - but that much water is so amazing! I made it a rule to have a stick before getting to the beach - so i could poke stuff, draw lines, and tell the ocean where wave boundaries were. Yeah, i'm 12.
Every beach we went to - there was NO ONE there. Probably because it was kinda chilly - but it was awesome.
Rocky beaches are the best. Look prettier and have more things to explore.
This is ben's version of the 'stick'. Playing around with big sea weeds.
BRRR! But yeah! 2.5 seconds after I took this - because I wasn't watching, the next wave came in a soaked me to my knees. But it's okay.
This WHALE JAW BONE was displayed next to a camp site of ours. I just couldn't get over it! This could be a flipper... okay that's understandable... but NOT A JAW BONE!! Crazy! Part of my home again home work assignment is to find a national geographic on whales.
Almost the north west corner of the Oregon coast is the Tillamook cheese factory. Well, we had to go there... but sadly it wasn't really great. It was memorial day and it was PACKED and the factory wasn't running and 70% of it was gift shop. But, did have good ice cream.
Just after the Tillamook factory minor disappointment... we found a much smaller local cheese place with cafe and petting zoo out back ( I know that sounds like a strange combo, but it worked). We got some fabulous candies and soft cheese and I made a friend...
This was (i think) the best camp site we had. Near Tillamook and we just stumbled on it. We had to hike up the hill and forage our own fire wood ("squaw no get 'em' firewood"), with a nice stream near by, just beautiful!
I spend the whole night doing puzzles and snuggling with nutella :) :)
Now we are home. And ready to pack!3 weeks to Washington!
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