Slow Connection

Well, I have to apologize for not posting in awhile. The problem is that we still have dial-up-Internet. Yes, I know we are still living in the stone age. So as you can imagine it takes forever to post anything, especially pictures. But soon we'll be upgrading! So when we upgrade it'll be much easier to post and hopefully I'll be doing it more often. So please be patient with me.

Well I can't seem to get blogger to download any pictures so I'll just tell you about our trip until I can get the pictures downloaded. We left Nampa on Friday and came home the next Saturday night/early Sunday morning. We stayed in Sisters, Oregon the first night at the city park. Sisters is a neat little tourist town. We walked through a couple shops before heading on. That day we stopped at Foster Lake which is near Sweet Home, Oregon. We liked the name so we stopped and had lunch. We had planned on staying somewhere near Corvallis, Oregon that night but to no avail no suitable camping areas were available. So we continued on to Newport, with no idea where we were going to sleep that night. We knew it would be an especially difficult feat because it was Saturday night. For some odd reason I agreed to go on this trip without any prior reservations for Friday, Saturday, or Sunday night. I know, What was I thinking? Anyway we drove down the coast from Newport looking for a place to rest our little heads. Hoping it wouldn't be in the car in the Walmart parking lot. Of course everything was full or extremely expensive. The last place we checked was a camp ground right on the coast near Waldport, Oregon. We drove in and asked the camp host if there was anything available. She must have felt sorry for us, what with two little kids in the car, because she said if site 50 is still open I'll give it to you. Well lucky us that site 50 had been reserved and the people never showed up. So we didn't have to sleep in the car that night. Sunday we looked around Newport and went to the Oregon State Science Museum. It was free and they had some pretty cool stuff to look at. That night we were able to get into South Beach State Park and we stayed there the rest of the week. The week was spent leisurely playing at the beach, crab fishing, walking down the bay front, doing laundry, going to the tide pools, playing at the beach, doing laundry, and fishing. We'll Tony, Perry, Thomas, Melissa, Davin, and Karen all went fishing while Alice, Jana, Rachel, and I stayed with the kids. But they were very successful and had a lot of fun too. The best part about it all is that the guys got schooled by Karen who caught the biggest fish of them all. On Friday we went to glass blowing place and had a custom bowl blown for us. We got to watch the whole process. It was really neat. Anyway buy Saturday we were ready to come home. We hadn't planned on coming home until Sunday, but we decided to just make the long drive home. We ended up getting home about 1:00 in the morning, but we were glad to have all day Sunday to recuperate before going back to the real world. All in all the entire trip was very relaxing and we had a chance to spend some real quality time together as a family.