We have been very busy the last several days with Jim, Colleen and the children. The bikes have been out and used every day. The children (and at least one or two of the adults) have ridden down to the beach every day and to the jetty and to the shipwreck and to the lake. In between times we’ve gone into Astoria,Oregon and Long Beach, Washington. There is a large arcade in Long Beach that the children remembered from a prior visit that we went to yesterday. Before that we went to Ilwaco, Washington for fresh crab and shrimp cocktails. Jim bought fresh salmon there (just caught that day) and barbecued it for dinner. We’ve had fires most nights and we seem to go to bed later and later every day. There are just not enough hours in the day for them. The children are having a wonderful vacation. Today is their last day with us. They will leave in the morning, heading back down the Oregon Coast where they have plans in several places. They are looking forward to meeting their other grandparents near the Redwoods for three days. We have another week here. We are really enjoying the cool weather. Where we’re camped it’s usually in the mid to high 60’s.
Bill and I looked at the map this morning. It looks like we’ll be home sometime early in the second week of August. We have a couple more places we want to go but I doubt we’ll stay longer than a day or two in any of them.
