ok, really back to owen!

I have had an itch to go to the coast so we went Saturday to Astoria. I thought it would be fun to get Owen out on the beach and take some pictures. Feel the water and sand etc... he fell asleep on the way and didn't wake up! So we drove up on the beach and got out and played while he slept! I thought about it later that I should have gotten a picture of him asleep in the car and the beach in the background. That would have been funny for the scrapbook! "Owens first trip to the beach!" We took an interesting route to get to Astoria. We went up the interstate into Washington and took a ferry across the Columbia and it put us about 20 min. outside of Astoria. The ferry was a huge build up for very little excitement. We just missed it when we got there so we had to wait about 40 minutes. In this time Bethany was getting way too excited. She just thought it was the coolest thing ever. Kind of reminded us of Dr. Seuss's "Go dog do" (In a car on a boat on the water!!) All that anticipation and we were on the ferry for about 10 minutes! I was not aware of the fact that it was such a short ride until we got there and I myself was a bit let down! It was still fun. Bethany loved it! I took some great pictures with my film camera. I have not been using that nearly enough, it felt good. So basically we spent about 5 hours in the car and got out on the beach for 45 min. It started raining and we were hungry! I at least somewhat got my fix..kindof. I think we are going to go back when my momma gets here. (That is if you want to mom!)
We saw this truck and I had Mike jump out and take a picture of it with the Boondox Market in the background. We got busted taking the picture and the "kid" came over and asked "did you just take a picture of my truck?" quick to reply Mike said "no I have never seen a Boondox before, we took a picture of the sign!" What would he have done if we said yes, I wonder?! I think he had a gun in the back of his truck, it wouldn't in the least surprise me!!!

This picture is for you, Matty! I instantly thought of you.