We flew into Portland around 9:30am on that Wednesday and my older sister, Ericka, came to pick us up. Luckily she only lives about 15 minutes away from the airport so it was really convenient for her to get us. After picking us up we headed for Multnomah Falls, just outside of Portland. While driving my newphew Cayden, who is almost 4, kept saying "undle dott, undle dott." I looked at my sister and was like, "what is he saying???" Apparently that's how he says "Uncle Scott." It was soo funny, and he would just say it over and over again until Scott responded and then do it all over again. It's funny because Cayden has never met Scott before and could call him by name, but then didn't even know mine!!!
After leaving Multnomah Falls we went to Ericka's house and waited for my brother in law, Jared, to get home from work. Once he did, we loaded up the car and made the 3 & 1/2 to 4 hour drive to my parents home in Waldport. It was a fun drive there with all the kids. Faith wanted to take turns listening to my ipod and both of us playing our gameboys together. Scott was sitting near my niece, Brenna, who is barely over a year old. She totally loved him! She would grunt to get his attention and then just laugh when he would look at her. I got a cute video of them on my camera.
That evening Scott and I walked with Faith and Cayden to the beach by my parents house and let them play. It was pretty cold and windy so we didn't stay too long. I helped the kids find some shells and then we decided to head back. It was getting dark and then kids didn't have any sweaters on either. We played games that evening at the motel my sister was staying out and that was the beginning of their addiction to Ticket To Ride!
Thursday morning we had a nice breakfast together. Scott and I planned on going whale watching, but it got canceled due to the weather. It was overcast and foggy, as usual, so we spent the day on the Newport bayfront. We went to the Undersea Gardens and to Ripley's Believe It or Not. They are a something to do on a day that you can't do anything else. We then headed for dinner and on our way there a lady turned into my mom's car and hit her. It was very minor but an experience to see how my mom handled it. After hearing that the lady just lost her husband to cancer a month ago, my mom was in tears for her. She felt worse for the lady than for herself. We finally made it to dinner and ate a my mom's favorite Thai food place. It wasn't too bad. Again, we played games that night too.
Before going to bed that night, Scott and I prayed that we would have good weather to go whale watching and Friday was an absolutely beautiful day! We started out the day by going to the tidepools at Seal Rock. The tide wasn't super low but we were still about to walk out on the rocks. We then went to visit the Old Yaquina Bay Lighthouse with Ericka and her family. After that we said our good-byes to them since they had to head back home. Faith didn't want to go and when I hugged her she wouldn't let go. It was so sad. After leaving there my parents dropped us off to go whale watching. We almost didn't get to go still because there weren't enough people. Two other couples ended up deciding to go too and that saved us! It was so beautiful out on the ocean. The water was so flat and the sun was out, but we still needed our sweatshirts. Lol. We should have prayed to actually see some whales, since we didn't. But either way we still enjoyed it. We then headed to the new Yaquina Head Lighthouse and then the Devil's Punchbowl. Two very pretty spots on the coast. That evening we ordered from my favorite pizza place and played games again, with just my mom this time.
Saturday was our day to head south. We went first to Devil's Churn, Cape Perpetua, Heceta Head Lighthouse, and the Sea Lion Caves (click on the recent pictures on that website). There was one spot left that I wanted to show Scott while we were down there, and that was coming into Florence. It is so beautiful as you start decending down and see the entire coast line straight in front of you. It's one of my favorite spots. We headed home after that and had dinner at the restuarant, The Adobe, where I worked while I was in high school.
The next day we were able to go to church and see my old ward. After church we headed up to Ericka's house where we stayed the night. We stayed up again, playing games and then Scott headed to bed. I stayed up a little longer with Ericka and Jared before I went to bed. We had to leave at 5:30am to get to the airport. I was so tired I slept most of the flight home. I was so happy to have that time with my family and to share it with my husband. It was a good trip.
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