The Beach

Memorial Day Weekend {yes, it seems like forever ago} was a four day weekend for us. Russ took Friday off and we headed to the coast for a family day! We started at the Oregon Coast Aquarium. I hadn't been to the aquarium since Keiko the whale was there so it had been awhile for me and I wasn't sure what to expect. It didn't take us long to see everything but Blake loved seeing the fish and the birds. There is a new exhibit that we miss by a day so we are definitely going to have to go back to check that out.

Checking out the starfish.

 Checking out the birds. 

Checking out the passages of the deep.

Blake was very intrigued about the man in the water.

Checking out the jelly fish.

After the beach we headed north to Lincoln City and of course had to stop at the outlet stores. Blake {and Russ} napped in the car while I spent sometime shopping. Once the boys were rested and I got my shopping fix we headed to the beach! This was the first time Blake had been to the beach since he started walking. {considering how close we live to the beach I can't believe it took us so long to get him there!} At first he wasn't so sure what to think of the sand.

Towards the end he was having so much fun! 

The whole way home all we heard was "more bato, bato pees" {translation; more water, water please} We are heading back to the beach this weekend for some camping {and hoping we don't get rained out}!