Yesterday, it was a beautiful,
sunny and relatively warm day for January!
So we decided to make a trip to the coast
in search of a good hike near the ocean!
And we found an awesome one near Long Beach!!
A couple pictures on our way there . . .
We always enjoy stopping in Astoria
to see the sea lions!
And of course, we needed to get "fueled up"
at our favorite little bakery in Long Beach!
A very nice lady offered
to take a picture of all of us!!
This was the very first picture taken as we set out on our first hike!
The sun was shining brightly!
(Since I'm not a very good photographer,
and we live in the Pacific NW,
I don't know what to do with the sun!
So a few of the pictures were a little
"washed out" with the bright sunshine!)
First lighthouse we came to had this sign that says "erected in 1898"!!!
Pretty cool!
These next few pictures are from our second hike.
It was an AWESOME trail through some really cool trees!
I think this one below is one of my favorites!
I love the way the sun in shining down
on Daddy and Benjamin.
After working very hard hiking
on this 1.5 mile trail,
Benajmin fell asleep. : -)
When we finished the 1.5 mile trail,
we walked down to the ocean!
And the kids decided to scale this mountain to retrieve our van,
rather than walking all the way back on the trail!
Can you spot them on the mountainside?
They made it just fine,
and came back with the van to pick the rest of us up!
Woo hoo!
Then we did just a bit more looking around the area,
and took this last picture before heading home!
It was a wonderful day!
Looks like you guys had a really fun time and the weather was perfect! Thank you for sharing all of the pictures! Love them!
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