Oregon, part one.

Since Kyle works a 8-5 job and I work every weekend, it doesn't leave much time for us together. We have a few hours in the evening, and on the weekend we just have a kind of "tag, you're it" situation going on. I give him a quick report on Friday night when I run out the door, and I see him briefly on Saturday when I wake up and head back into work. And let's just face it... Sunday's are a blur and while we may get to go to church together (I'm not normally all with it), then I come home and go to sleep. I rarely wake up until he's headed to bed.


Last October, Kyle came home from work one night, looked at me and said, "We need a vacation."
It didn't take much arm twisting for me to start throwing out suggestions. Disneyland, a cruise, Hawaii, Mexico, Carlsbad, Oregon... Oregon. I wanted to go back to Oregon, and luckily so did Kyle.
We wanted a vacation that was relaxing, one where we could sit down together and spend time with one another. We didn't want something where we were rushing to see new sites or busy standing in line waiting to go on rides. We wanted time together, and Oregon would fit the bill.

Two weeks later we had a beach house booked and ready to go for the end of February. Although the weather was sure to be a beast, it just meant that we would have all that much more time to sit in the beach house and do nothing more than stare at each other if that's what we wanted to do.

So at the end of February we headed out... and it couldn't have been a better decision

I was the navigator...and these were the items that helped get us safely to the coast. Two phones...one on google maps and one on mapquest... I love them and hate them both and I figured out what part of which app I liked and used them both to navigate through the mess of Portland freeways... oh, and the chocolate helped...a lot.

Speaking of Portland... it was raining the morning we woke up here and we figured it would just follow us to the coast.

As soon as we saw the first sign that said, "Beach this way" we took the detour and headed down to play and look at tide-pools. There's something very therapeutic about the beach. There were some dark clouds, but no rain. It was perfect.

(This is just in front of our rental...the proximity to the beach was fantastic.)

More to come soon.