The Coast

There is nothing quite like the Oregon coast. Beautiful, powerful and peaceful all at once. Also like Ryan says, its really really cold. It's definitely no Caribbean but we did get our feet wet and most of the kids were wet to their arm pits before they knew it. Rachel liked to jump the waves and chase the surf. Anna was our great shell collector. She found lots of neat shells and several whole sand dollars. They all got to come home with us - yeah!!! Dallin went sand crab hunting and found several he was able to dig up. Taylor's big discovery was a star fish. He really wanted to keep it, he thought he would make a great friend for JR. We told him that if he brought it home it would die. He wanted to bring it home - we told him doing so would kill it. He decided he did want to bring it home but he wouldn't kill it, he would just let it die on its own. What great reasoning. So he stuck it in a bucket and carried up to the car, somewhere in the parking lot his conscious got the better of him and he carried it back down to the ocean and threw it back. I hope that starfish realizes how close he came to losing his life. Although we didn't bring the starfish home we did bring enough sand home to start our own beach.