On President's Day we decided to go to Astoria and Seaside to take in the sights. Luckily as you can see it was an amazingly sunny day on the Coast, a rarity in February in Oregon to say the least!
We followed the Columbia river to Astoria and on the way got to see a Bald Eagle and a big herd of Elk on the side of the road in a field. When we got to Astoria we headed straight for the Astoria Column, boy it was an amazing view! The air was so clear and the sky was a bright blue and the river and ocean being a darker blue it was just so beautiful.
After the Astoria Column we headed over to Fort Stevens because Ronald had never been there before. A couple of cool things with Fort Stevens, it was actually shelled by a Japanese submarine during WWII but luckily no one was hurt. There was a bunch of cool WWII things on display there like different types of guns, uniforms, maps and photos of both US and Japanese Armies.
Seaside was the next stop on the tour, where Jared got to enjoy his first Carousel ride, elephant ear and ran up and down the promenade chasing dogs. This being Oregon just about everyone had a dog or two or three with them everywhere we went! Jared loves dogs so much that if he sees one he points at it then starts yelling "dok, dok" (he can't quite say dog yet). Its so cute until there are a hundred dogs everywhere and he is just running in circles yelling "dok, dok" and chasing these poor dogs everywhere. Luckily a few people stopped and let him pet their dogs and he just loved it. Ronald had to go crabbing since we were on the coast so we headed over to 12th Ave bridge in Seaside where you can crab off the bridge. We didn't catch anything but you could see them just wandering around in the river.
All in all we had a fun day, Jared slept every time we had to drive a long way so it worked out perfectly. Actually with Ronald driving we made it from Seaside to our door in just over an hour!
