Cannon Beach

So Ray and I got back on Wednesday from our trip down to the coast. It was absolutely beautiful! It was such a nice and relaxing trip that I think we both needed a lot.

Ray's surprise was balloons, cake, candles, a mug with taffy set up by the hotel. It was actually a surprise which was great because I usually can't surprise him. He even searched the car for it because he wanted to know what it was. The cake wasn't that great but he enjoyed everything else.

We left on Sunday and the plan was to go to a mall in Portland because of a store I wanted to go to but we changed our minds. We stayed in the Hillsboro/Beaverton area and ate and did some shopping. You know Kohl's? Well here we always see commercials for all of their great sales, well there isn't one in Washington. Well, we were on our way to lunch at Carl's Jr....so yummy by the way, and we passed Kohl's so we had to turn around and go in. I found some cute skirts but they looked funny on so I passed on those. But I have been looking for a basic black purse forever and I found one there. It is perfect. We then went to PF Chang's for dinner. I know there is one in Bellevue but Ray had never been and that sounded good to him. He loved it of course. We got mongolian beef, sweet & sour chicken and asparagus. It was delicious!

So on Monday morning we set out for the beach. It took a little over an hour to get there, we were in the mountains most of the time and it was raining off and on which was annoying. But as soon as we got past the mountains and started down the coast it was beautiful. We got a little lost when we got into town because the main road through town was closed so we had to get back on the freeway to get to our hotel. Our hotel was a little ways from the downtown area, probably 2 miles but it was perfect. The hotel is more like a cabin type place. So nice, so there was a bunch of buildings and probably like 2-5 rooms in each building. It felt more like a cabin than a hotel room. We had a jacuzzi in our room so that was lots of fun. We had a small view of the water but the room was great. We had dinner the first night at Bill's Tavern. Just bacon cheeseburgers but good. I had a sample of some blackberry beer. It was ok. I'm not much of a beer person but the blackberry definately made it have a different after taste. For Ray's bday we did some shopping. We still had to get his mom a mother's day present and we found a store that she would've loved. We got her some stuff there and I hope she enjoys them. We went to dinner at a local place. It was ok, they almost didn't serve Ray a beer since his license expired that day. We both had halibut and chips. Kinda skimped on the halibut but there were more than enough fries.

We left on Wednesday morning. We stopped in Seaside to see what it was like and we definatley like Cannon Beach more. Seaside was older and more touristy and more dirty. Same with Astoria, just didn't really appeal to us. We know that we will definately be going back though.

Here are a couple pictures. I can only put so many on there. I have them on www.kodakgallery.com if you would like to see the slide show.

Ok, so no pictures. It is being retarded and not letting me add any pictures. I even tried to put them on a new post and that didn't work. I'll try again tomorrow.