The day after Shane got out of school, correction - we skipped the last day where they go for one hour because it was a snow make-up that I was not aware of when we planned our trip. So we elected Shane's last day to be Wednesday and we loaded the car and left town early Thursday morning. The projected drive time is 7 hours, so I packed all of our food, hoping to make as few stops as possible. By a miracle, our children were prefect angels the entire drive to Seaside and we made the entire trip with stops for gas and restroom breaks in just under 7 hours. A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!!!!!! About 3 hours in I wanted to comment to Brian how smooth the trip was going, but I was so afraid to jinx us that I kept my mouth closed. We enjoyed a peaceful ride with Shane having a Nintendo DS marathon in the far back and Myann and Anders eating from their lunchboxes and coloring. It was not until we were 4 hours in and had stopped at a restroom that Anders asked for a movie. I was shocked that they had not asked for movies up until that point. We put in movies and they were content for the last 3 hours.
We arrived in Seaside and met the Prizeman family at the beach by their hotel. The kids immediately ran towards the ocean and played in the sand. When our house was ready, we headed a few block away and settled in. Kids enjoyed exploring the house and then we packed up for dinner. Despite being beyond tired, they all did reasonably well at dinner. I was happy to get some seafood and then we tried out the local ice cream shop.
Day 2 we headed to Cannon Beach. The drive up to the beach was gorgeous and took you on a road through lush trees and plants. Then the beach was amazing with the large rocks covered with starfish and sea urchins. Shane's observation, "There is allergies growing everywhere." Obviously he meant algae, but there were lots of allergies growing everywhere too.
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