Oregon Coast

Oregon Coast

Friday, May 19, 2006

Mother's Day

We went to Pt Reyes National Park for Mother's Day. It was a wonderfully warm weather day, just perfect for the picnic lunch my sister and I had planned for our families. We ate chicken salad croissant sandwiches and fresh fruit, and homemade frosted brownies, right beside the beach. It couldn't be more perfect. Oh yeah, and us adults hade some white wine to wash it all down with. :-)

Josiah had a blast running in the water on the beach. He was absolutely fearless, which is both super fun to watch and extrememly fearful for the mommy. :-)
Our family playing on the beach.



This is a picture of us hiking down to Pt Reyes Lighthouse. It's about a 1/2 mile hike out there and last little bit is well over 300 steps downhill.



It was a LONG drive home. Trust me, long is not a good enough word in this instance, but it will suffice. We left the lighthouse hike parking lot at 5pm and about 8pm we were driving out of San Francisco and had a starving little boy in the back seat, so we started looking for a good place to have dinner. It just so happened that there were no good restaurants along our trek, so we finally broke down and stopped at Burger King becuase I jsut couldn't stand to wait any longer. It was right beside an airport with tons of helicopters. Well, right on front of the BK was another helicopter, only it was made safe for kids to play on it. All of the control levers and dials and pedals still worked though. So for dinner on mothers day we dined in a helicopter. This folks, is what memories are made of!



Blessings to you all! And I hope that your mothers day were just as blessed as mine.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Cool! I love the dinner part! What a breathtaking view of the ocean as you walk to the lighthouse. How far away is it from you house?

Unknown said...

Hi Amy! :-)
It is over 100 miles from our house for sure, just not sure the exact # of miles.
It was a very long drive, just for a day. Only thing is I didn't realize it going into the day. Learned my lessons of checking miles before I go somewhere. I'm glad we went though, it was beautiful!

Anonymous said...

Wow! That walk down to the lighthouse looks amazing! What a beautiful place. :)

It looks like the helicopter was definately the high light of Josiah's day! I bet he was getting tired too, but look at that grin on his face! :)

Sounds like the highlights made up for the long drive home.


Julia