M. Photography

Livy & I flew to Portland on Wednesday evening. We had a layover in Denver and it was so beautiful flying out with the sunset & mountains!We then drove to Seaside, OR Thursday morning. We found our hotel and then drove south just a few miles to Cannon Beach.And the forecast was 100% right -Rain. It basically rained the entire time but we walked around to see everything with our umbrella’s! Excuse the blurry photo below, we asked a friendly couple to take a picture and unfortunately it was a little out of focus. I had stayed in Cannon Beach before and knew of this quaint little slightly hidden restaurant called The Lazy Susan Cafe. This is Livy’s yummy gourmet gingerbread pancakes - My meal was wonderful too, just not as picturesque.It was so beautiful walking through the streets and seeing the flowers & trees blooming!

One bucket list item for this trip was to go to Hug Point, OR . See how pretty it is?!Imagine winds gusting at ridiculous speed, sand whipping against any open skin, causing “sand burn”, hair flying everywhere, cold-numbing cold…but beautiful scenery! 

Friday we weren’t meeting up with the other girls until late afternoon so we drove a few miles north to Astoria,OR. Along the way we saw some sea lions by the docks so we got out {in the rain again} and watched them.Astoria is a I guess what you would call a “Port City” and had lots of big ships coming in.

We rented a house in Seaside and met up with the rest of the girls. Reuniting with old friends, making new friends… it was a great time, in Seaside & at the YG invite-a-friend!  

Almost everyone was into Photography, and had a DSLR Camera- Go Team Cannon! Photo Credit: MindyElsie & I meeting and talking {probably photography} :) Photo Credit: Jeana

We had a great evening talking, its just one of God’s wonderous works how he can put a random group of people together and they can meet, and talk about their lives and learn so much and realize that we are a lot the same! We also played team Dutch Blitz Photo Credit: Kinsey 

Saturday morning was off & on rain and there were actually snippets of blue sky. Photo Credit: Kinsey Group picture outside the house we rented Photo Credit: JennaOur pictures set-up, bench & buckets in the middle of the streetA neat fact- Seaside is the end of the Lewis & Clark trailWe took pictures on the coast and it had actually stopped raining for a bit!  Livy & I stayed with Jenna- thanks again Jenna for all you did!We walked uptown to rent “Surrey’s”Nine person bikes to ride around town, one problem was we had 11 people, so Elsie & I rented mopeds and oh how nice it would be to say we had a pleasant jaunt around town, we had a jaunt around town but it also included a moped launching over a curb through the landscaping and almost onto a crowded sidewalk in the heart of seaside tourism after that- (a missing taillight, and some flower stems hanging from my engine) Elsie and I laughed the entire weekend – I think we are all still laughing!

 Then it was off to Silverton, OR for the invite-a-friend weekend, and unfortunetly no pictures to prove the good times, but good times just the same!

Traveling so many places and seeing so many wonderful things make me think- we are just here at this “seaside” but,….