Saturday, May 31, 2008



The beds where the guys sleep. There's not enough space to sit up in these beds and they are the roomier ones. You can actually walk down this hallway without turning sideways. The other beds are three to one side and usually the guys have to share the beds. Yuck!


The engine room control panel... and some cute kids that were taking the tour with us.


Rory and the sub.


This is the sub we toured. It was one of the subs in Hunt for Red October.


Rory and I being excited to go on our sub tour.


Rory being a dinosaur in the OMSI museum.

Dinosaur! It was walking down the street so I decided to take a picture.

Our backyard. We have horses back there that make a lot of noise sometimes. Our roomate says there used to be cows with holes in their sides back there too. We haven't seen those.


This is our little house. It's kind of an ugly picture because you can't see the trees that surround the house.


Here's a washed out picture of me coming out of the caves.

Rory at the Oregon Caves.




Rory climbing a redwood.


Rory going into the tall grass. Obviously he didn't learn anything from Jurassic Park.

Saturday, May 3, 2008



Me petting a sea lion at Ocean World. Rory and I also got kissed by the sea lion.


We stopped by Ed and Tamra's house on our way down the coast. I got us there by remembering the lumber mill with the sneaky road and the broken gated community. But I couldn't remember which house was theirs so I did end up having to call for directions. But that's pretty good for only having been there once a couple years ago and I wasn't driving.


We stopped at the Cape Blanco Lighthouse. It was incredibly windy! We could lean pretty far into the wind without falling over. I tried to catch Rory doing it but missed by a bit. Instead I caught him frolicking.


Rory and I taking a little nature walk at Devils Churn.



This is Devil's Churn. The ocean has carved out a channel through the lava rock. It was really fun and scary to watch the waves come booming through it. The picture on the right is Rory going to look over the edge. I followed him and nearly fell in. I'm such a spaz. You can't really see it in the pictures but the ocean is really far down and there's no coming out if you fall in.


Bad picture of the octopus but I liked it because it has Rory and me in it too!



We made squished pennies at the aquarium! It's something I've always wanted to do but never actually did. Until now. It was great.



Rory and I being excited to go to the Oregon Coast Aquarium.



The Tillamook Cheese factory and Blue Cow and me. There were cheese samples in the factory that we got to try. They were yummy. My favorite was the squeaky cheese.


This picture is for Dad. I know it's a bad one but it's the best I could do in a car. If you look close you can see a seagull on the left side of the road. There were lots of them floating on the updraft from the bridge. It made me think of Dad and his crows.



The Astoria Column and the Flavell House. Two neat places we went and saw in Astoria OR. The Flavell house we could actually go in and walk around in. It was a beautiful house. The Column was being worked on or something so we couldn't go up it.

This is a skunk flower. I'd never seen one before and Rory made me smell it. It didn't smell to bad until I started walking away from it. Woo! Maybe my nose has delayed reaction smelling. It was bad.


Thank you Sara and Jake! We survived off this on our long drives.