On Wednesday we drove to the Oregon Coast to spend a week in Lincoln City with Kefford's family.
On Thursday I walked with Rylee down to the beach and it was pretty cold, I am not afraid to say that we didn't last long down there that day. It was cold, windy, rainy and the sun was hidden behind some clouds, definitely not ideal beach weather. On our way down the path to get to the sand Rylee slipped and fell in some mud and had to go back to change. Brit came down with Brielle, Qiana and Isabelle and those girls collected shells while I waited for Rylee to get back. She was not in the shell collecting mood when she got back but we hung around for a little bit before finally calling it done and heading back to the warm house.
On Friday we went to the Aquarium. When we arrived we saw that they were getting ready to feed the Seals and Sea Lions so we hurried outside to be able to watch.
After the feeding we went over to watch the puffins swimming around their sanctuary. We watched one of them climb up the rock and with a lot of encouragement from us he jumped into the water! They were really cute and fun to watch.
It was a rainy day and since I was the only one who brought an umbrella I ended up with many friends crowding in with me. I didn't mind, I was just glad that I had some protection from the rain. It wasn't too bad at the start of being outside but by the time we were done seeing the puffins it was really starting to come down hard so we all hurried inside to see the rest of the sea life.
We had fun touching the starfish, sea urchins and anemones in the touching pool. The water was freezing cold which made it a little uncomfortable but it was pretty cool none the less.
Brit took some pictures of Avynlea looking at some fish with her Dad, Kelsey and Hazel.
We tried to get all the grandkids gathered by a replica of a ship wreck for a picture but that was, of course, pretty difficult.
I saw Kenedy holding Sadie and Sadie was looking pretty pleasant so I told them to look at the camera for a picture and she must not have liked that because the pleasant look disappeared. She is still cute though. There was a bubble the kids could go up in to look closer at the fish and Sadie was being really hesitant about it so Avynlea went in to show her it was fun. She finally went in also and they both enjoyed the view.
And I got a picture of Rylee with this big Starfish.
As we were leaving I had the kids pose for a picture inside the shark mouth. I liked Ryker's expression in the second picture as he watched his Dad put a stuffed bird into the picture.
It was nice to get back to the house and relax a bit, it rained all day so beach time without getting soaked for most of us was out of the question. Avynlea did go down with Mikayla at some point and stopped long enough for a picture.
Later in the day Kefford and I took Avynlea, Ryker and Kenedy along with Jeremy, Gwen, and their kids to the glass blowing shop. They didn't have tours but we could go and watch them do the glass blowing. People can sign up and pay money to do their own glass blowing with a lot of assisted help of course. It looked so cool and I would have loved to have done it but it was really expensive. Maybe some day we can do that but for now it was really cool just to watch the process.
One of the guys sat on the side and told us what was going on as they were doing it which was nice. Another guy put some hot glass on the end of his tube and blew it like a bubble until it fell off and broke just to show us how thin they can blow the glass. I really enjoyed being a the Aquarium but watching the glass blowing was the highlight of that day!
