Lemme at it! The coast water was abnormally warm.
Castle creation by Nate
Nate, clam gun and fish which moments later was stolen by a bald eagle
Wave runners - Nate and Tyler
The birthday kite
Deadliest Catch by Ian. Acutally, Dead Catch
It's good to be brothers
We took a
spontaneous trip to the Oregon Coast yesterday to visit our friends the Wrights
(http://thewrightthingstodo.blogspot.com/). After a short 75 minute drive we
found the perfect day - party sunny, 60-
ish, a bit of wind and 5 kids that had the most fun together. Nate worked on a sand castle
creation and was excited to find some unbroken sand dollars. The kids also fed seagulls and flew Nate's new kite that he got for his birthday. We found a fish
washed up on the beach that may have been still alive until a huge eagle swooped in from nowhere and snatched the fish away (Tracey and I had our backs turned and thought Nate was telling a tall tale until we noticed an eagle with a fish flying away from the beach).
Later in the day, we went a bit farther north to a different beach were Tracey's hubby Ron did some clam digging. He found a shrimp to show the kids and about a dozen
razor clams while digging in the surf. Ron is a pro - he grew up at the coast so this seemed second nature to him. I only spent a few minutes in the surf with him, but I didn't see a thing. I hope to get back again and try it another time
before the season is over!
Heat wave 2009 is due to arrive any minute so we thought we would get a jump start and rented a huge water slide that some friends of ours have. The Patterson kids joined us for an entire day (and evening) of sliding and squirting. I even took a couple trips down as it got hot sitting out all day monitoring the crazies. I never did take a picture of the whole thing but you climb up one side and there is a twisty slide with water showers down it that ends in a pretty good sized pool. Needless to say, the boys were asleep before their heads even hit the pillow tonight.
