Sunday in Lincoln City....and Then Along the Coast

You can take a family out of Cali, but you can't take the Cali out of the family!

We love us some beach time.  One of our biggest concerns about moving up here to Oregon was giving up the beach , (I know, we had our priorities right. lol).

I know there's still a coast, buuuuuut........We knew it wouldn't be quite the same.
Still, we were eager to get out there and since we don't have house projects at the moment, we just decided to drive the hour and 45 minutes out to the waves!

Lincoln City was our destination for the day.  We've had an eye on this place, as it looked like a fun, family friendly beach that was closer than any other to our new diggs.

We dressed for a pretty cold day. I guess I expected it to be like the beach in Petrolia.  I didn't even bring sand toys because I was convinced it would be miserable.  I figured all we could do was look at the tide pools.

Well, we were pleasantly surprised!

We drove right up on the beach and it was beautiful.  Sunny.  People (and dogs, and remote control cars) running all over the place.  Traces of campfires.




After hours of fun, we set out to find some clam chowder and ice cream .  Bad traffic and some cluelessness led us down the coastline, through Depoe Bay, and all the way to Newport Candy, in Newport for some delicious Cotton Candy and Tillamook Oregon Hazelnut and Salted Caramel ice cream. Um, YUM!  We never did get our chowder....next time!


We could get used to this.

~Sarah