Useless bits of info brought to you by Greg&Annie: Beach Trip!

So lately we have been working a lot. We need a breather here and there (doesn't everyone?). When we lived in CA it seemed like every single weekend we traveled. We traveled to the coast (free!!), we traveled to Monterey (favorite place still!), we traveled up and down CA, into NV, across country, to the Winter Olympics, up to Oregon and WA. We never made it overseas or anywhere else exotic but we did get a chance to see a lot of the USA that we hadn't seen before. Even after Belly was born, trips here and there. We might have been poor but we at least went cool places when we had an extra dollar.

Then we moved here. Traveling stopped. boo hoo. Since we moved up here we have only taken a couple excursions not including our trips back home and to Disneyland. Now granted when we moved here we were POOR. Like so poor we couldn't even afford the OR at the end of poor. It was kind of a bummer in the worst way. Finally my friends, we are emerging from the train wreck. And to that I say,,,, let the traveling resume!! We will start out small (like we did today) as in beach trips and treks to central Oregon. Maybe a jaunt to Vancouver BC, maybe a stroll to Idaho and Montana. Maybe next year a trip to Spain and Portugal. Who knows? Only time will tell. I'm rambling.. you have probably already lost interest. hahaha.

So last week Greg suggested we get out of dodge and take a trip to the Oregon coast for the day. We live in a great part of the metro area. We are on the west side making a trip to the beach about 1.5 hour trip or less. After I slept in for a bit this morning (hey! I'm not off until 4:00 am folks!) we hopped in the car and headed west. We spent the afternoon hanging out in Cannon Beach. We had a little seafood for lunch at a local haunt, played in the sand and ocean, shared some ice cream, and headed back to our humble abode. It was wonderful, probably the best trip we have had to the coast since our 2005 trip to the Oregon aquarium in Newport.

I can't wait for the next little roadie. In the usual fashion, if you scroll down you will find some pictures of our day at the beach!