Lincoln City

 This week summer was officially underway. We have been keeping ourselves busy each day. Emily is moving next Friday so I have been trying to help her as much as possible. I am definitely paying the price of spending so much time around her kitty. My allergies are out of control.

Friday, Jeremy had the day off of work for Juneteenth and we headed to the coast. We went to Lincoln City because the girls wanted to play Finders Keepers. Finders Keepers is a game the city runs. They hide glass floats on the beach. If you find one, you get to keep it. We have never found one and our luck didn't change on Friday.

We got to the beach just before low tide. The kids wanted to fly kites immediately, but I wanted to go look for tide pools. Jeremy and I went for a walk while the kids got going on the kites. We ended up walking about 1.5 miles down the beach and found not only tide pools full of starfish and other sea creatures, but also some amazing rock formations. Walking among the huge boulders and rock formations on the beach, it felt otherworldly. We tried to call the kids to get them to come, but they we having their own adventures.

When we got back, we found out that while the kids had gotten all three kites in the air, Elsie had lost control of one and it had flown away. Merrick went on an adventure through the neighborhood and found it, but wasn't able to get it back. There was a sweet neighborhood lady who came and gave us another kite to replace our lost one.

After that, Elsie wanted to go look for floats. As I mentioned previously, we were unsuccessful, but we found other treasures.

We continued to fly our kites and relax on the beach. We had one Dollar Tree kite that was a real champ, it stayed up for hours and we took turns holding it. When we finished with the kites, we played sand baseball as a family. 

Once we had had all the beach fun we could handle, we went on a drive to Devil's Punchbowl and then got dinner before heading home.

It was overcast all day and foggy off and on so while we brought two bottles of sunscreen, non of us thought to put it on. Unfortunately, along we fun memories, we came home with some pretty nasty sunburns. Even with the sunburns, it was still a day to remember.

P.S. Today is Father's Day so happy Father's Day to Jeremy, our favorite dad, and to all the fathers out there.