Vacation day 1

We left Salem this morning with a car full of stuff and a plan - to drive to the coast and stop where we wanted - ok not so much a plan as a general idea. We had a map and a book called "Oregon Curiosities". Within the first hour we saw one of the curiosities, rather accidentally. It was some guy's yard with a giant martini glass, a yellow submarine, and a flag-painted-car in a tree... hmm, interesting.

And then we made it to the beach! It was rainy and stuff, but we still had fun. We had lunch at Moes - hooray for clam chowder sourdough bread bowls!!! Then we decided to stop at a lighthouse, but it was closing soon and there was a line to get it, so we went tide pooling next to it instead and saw some marine life including a star fish, crabs, and harbor seals!

Next was the scariest part of the day; the Devil's Punch Bowl!!!!

It's really just a cool cave that the ocean carved out that caved it. But there were squirrels EVERYWHERE! The picture shows two of the circling their supposed prey. It was lucky we had some blackberries to feed them or we would have never escaped!

Then we got to the hotel in Florence OR. We brought some home made bbq beef, mashed potatoes, and leftover onion rings from lunch, and I had a fantastic sandwich! Here is our romantic dinner from our hotel room; Good times!

We then drove to the sand dunes and ran around and had fun there (man is it a workout to run up those huge piles of sand!) There were some guys there who had sandboards and were boarding down the sand like a snowboard!! That totally looked like fun! There were some places to rent them, but I dont think that'll be this trip. Then we went back to the hotel, swam in the pool, and sat in front of cable TV.

See you tomorrow, when we go haunted!