Our Vacation--Tillamook, OR

Miami River Inn
Garibaldi, OR
Thursday-Friday
August 21-22

For our 16th anniversary, we decided to stay in a romantic bed and breakfast on the Tillamook Bay... okay so we brought our 4 kids with us, but it was still nice.

The kids' room.

Our room (with a kid on the bed)

Hunter bonding with one of the toys at the inn.

Our original plan was to visit the Tillamook cheese and ice cream factory and camp this night. We decided to go to the factory, but it took us quite a bit longer than we had planned on and we arrived at Tillamook at around 5 pm. We toured the factory and decided there was no way we could drive home that night, so we checked out tents at Fred Meyer, thinking maybe a dry tent might get us through. But by this point, I was done camping and the thought of dragging out our muddy gear was actually making me nauseous. We passed a sign for a b&b and I talked Alex into splurging. It was so nice. The lady who ran it was very friendly and didn't seem to mind us calling her so late. She made us waffles with homegrown blueberries on them and the room was stocked with lots of toys, games and videos for the kids. She even had one of her grandsons visiting so Dylan had someone to play with him the next morning.


The Tillamook Cheese Factory, a major tourist attraction on the Oregon coast.

Watching the workers package the cheese.


The best part: sampling the products

Even Lily got a taste.

We spent the next day, driving up the coast of Oregon. It was absolutely breathtaking. I have completely fallen in love with Washington and Oregon.


Brrr. This is freezing water.

This was by far the most common sign on the highway.

We stopped for lunch in Seaside, a major tourist trap.

The bridge in Astoria. This thing is really high. I was starting to get dizzy driving on it. I wouldn't let Megan talk the whole way over the bridge.


My muscle man.

Hunter has forgotten what real waves look like (We don't really have waves in the sound. Only when boat pass us.) He wouldn't go any closer to the ocean than this.


The Oregon Coast has all these beautiful rock formations out in the water. It's different from North Carolina.


We rushed to Mount St. Helens to go to the Visitor's Center, only to find out that it was closed. Bummer.


Mt St. Helens was supposed to be in the background, but it somehow disappeared. This is what it looks like.


This was our vacation. Lily was marvelous until we reach Lacey (about 30 minutes from home). She told us she was done and did not want to be in her car seat anymore. We had to listen to her scream for the last 30 minutes, but she was happy once we got home.