So taylor and i went to the beach this last saturday. we left at around 9 am. got lost, following mapquest directions, and finally arrived in Lincoln city at around 1 pm. we enjoyed a fun-filled drive full of exciting conversations, lots of laughs and taylor getting really frustrated and making me drive :). we decided to immediately stop and get food the second we drove into Lincoln City. so we stopped at some hole in the wall restaurant that had random cows all around the place for decorations. I had clam chowder in a bread bowl...DIVINE...and taylor had fish and chips. his was pretty good to. after lunch we drove to the beach, and went on a walk up the beach for about half an hour. we found a large rock in the middle of the beach which we climbed up and sat and read the Bible for about half an hour. then we sat and talked. it was cozy, and relaxing. we then walked back to where we started and went into the city and wandered around the shops. We walked into a small shop called "Grandma's attic" which was basically a very neat version of Mike's second hand store. taylor bought a walking stick and then talked to the lady for over fifteen minutes about the weather. oh boy, talk bout embarrassing. ha. then we went into a knife store and he bought a cool machete. that was a cool store. so yeah. we kept walking around then we decided to go BACK to the beach and walk up the other side. so we walked...for about three hours. we kept looking at the ground because the ocean was washing up these colorful small pebbles and we were trying to find the most interesting ones. then we stopped by a washed up log and sat some more and talked some more. and then we walked back! WHEW! lots and lots of walking. when we half way to his car we saw another area of small shops and i was getting so tired so we went in and he got me an iced frappe which was poorly made and not worth the $4.50 he paid, but we each got a piece of chocolate. i got Peanut butter Toffee and he got a Peanut Butter Truffle. Both were very tasty. so we got back to his car and we drove to a restaurant which i forgot the name of, but Taylor would remember :) it was really fancy and we sat in the bar by a window that had a nice view of the beach. it was really nice. we had some really tasty food. aaah, it twas fun. we were so exhausted but we wanted to stay and watch the sunset so we walked back to the beach and found that someone had left a dying fire, so we sat down by it and i read my book and he just sat there. it was also very relaxing. unfortunately our hour wait on the beach was almost in vain because there was no sunset because of all the clouds, but it still was very nice, and i finished my book. we then drove back home. i took a nap in the car and woke up to a very frustrated taylor and we were in some city which i forgot already. so taylor made me drive again and he fell asleep while i drove around, through downtown portland and finally found our way back to estacada.
and thus ended our beachy adventures. it was very fun. :)