Our Summer Part 2

Just three days after getting home from Manitoba, the girls and I took off for the coast to visit with my Mom and brother. It was a great visit. Mom and I borrowed a motor home from a friend of hers and took a little trip down the Oregon coast. the motor home is older than me - with lovely shag carpet...but it worked great.

We stopped at the Tillimook cheese factory. Ivy was so excited to go see the place where they make cheese...and then they found out that milk also makes ice cream. We could hardly hold them back. It was wonderful.

The next day we drove to the Oregon Aquarium. If I thought the girls were happy about the cheese factory, they were ecstatic about the aquarium. They loved all the tanks of fish and sea life. Ivy was most excited about the sharks...and they even got to pet a baby shark. It was great. To top it off, the RV park were we stayed that night was right on the water and we were able to go out during low tide and see a bunch of star fish and sea anemones. The beaches in Oregon are amazing.

This is the beach were we stayed the second night.

So after two very successful days we were excited to go to the world famous Sea Lion Caves. Everyone went down to the lookout and saw the sea lions from up above and were amazed at how many there were and we almost had to run to the elevator to go down and get in the caves to see them up close. We got in the elevator, rode down about 220 ft, and the doors opened...
it was dark, very loud, and very very smelly - of course! That's were the sea lions live...we are the ones in the cage. The girls HATED it. "Get us out of here!" Since I am a mean mommy, I made them wait until I had my fill of the smell and noise. It was really an amazing thing to see and hear. I may not ever get the kids to go back there, But I would go back in a heart beat.

We saw a bunch of light houses and sat on the most amazing beaches and when it was time to go back it was so hard to leave. I will definitely be making a trip down the Oregon coast again, next time with Graham!