A Driving Tour in the Rain

Today was not a beach day. Which was sad for Lon.  We did get up and take a walk on the beach before going to Pig n' Pancake! We did not find any glass floats. This is a dream of Marks. He so wants to find one of his own.

Pig N' Pancake! Lon had his sand dollar pancakes, Mark has banana pancakes and I got sourdough with strawberry compote. Everyone loved their breakfasts!  Lon likes the jokes on the back of the kids menu! What takes a pig to the hospital? A HAMbulance! hahahahahaaaa

A short drive down the coast is Depoe Bay. This boat is going out in the rough. I had absolutely no desire to go out on the water. Neither did Lon. (Mark either) Whale watching trips were a no-go!

Lon at Depoe Bay. We wanted to go into the Whale Watching Center, but they are closed till Wednesday. Better luck next time.

Lon and Daddy at Devil's Punchbowl. The surf was so loud! It was, as always, super cool to see!

Yaquina Lighthouse! We love lighthouses! We read there were tours available starting 1-4pm. We would have to come back. It was still about 10am. We did walk around and look at the visitor's center.  Lon played and colored.

Inside the visitor's center. There is a topographical map that fascinated Lon. But he was too short to see it all. Daddy to the rescue!

This was a great place we found because we were all hungry going down the road. Grand Central, in Waldport. Voted the best pizza on the coast by Oregon Coast Magazine. It was good pizza. I had halibut, and Mark had clams. Lon ate TWO slices of pizza.

Looking for whales at Cape Perpetua.  Lon had fun there. No whales to be seen. There was alot of fun things for little people to do there, games, puzzles.

Beauty shot (had to sneak one in)

We took the Captain Cook Trail, 3/4 of a mile. It was a nice easy paved trail. Lon wanted to RUN

At the beach on the Captain Cook Trail. We all thought it was best NOT to go down to look at the tidepools. Maybe if the tide was a bit lower...

To get from the Visitor's center up the hill, down to the beach, you have to cross Highway 101. It is in the middle of an S curve. We do not go over the road, we go under it! In a nice big culvert. It was very fun

I love Sushi Man in Seal Rocks.

Newport Candy in Newport has great ice cream and candy. Lon got Root Beer Float Ice Cream. He loved the flavor, it was new to him.

We went back to Yaquina Head to tour the light house. This is the view from the top! 104 stairs up!

The stairs going up!

Back in Depoe Bay. In front of a taffy store. We were good and did not get taffy, but it was really fun to watch the taffy being pulled and stretched, cut and wrapped.

In Depoe Bay. There were three seals playing, goofing off for the tourists!

Back in Lincoln City. We went to dinner at Lee's Chinese. Lon tried chopsticks

He got the food into his mouth! We have to work on form, but he is having a great time with chopsticks! After this we bought him some trainer chopsticks!

The birds at our balcony

Thus ends another day at Lincoln City! We loved it. Had a great day!