Mike and Patty visit Newport

Monday evening Mike and Patty, the friends we stayed with in Fair Oaks, CA, came by on their way to Seattle.

Monday night Mike went with us to Georgie’s for dinner.  Patty was recovering from a bad cough so she stayed home to rest.

Tuesday we got up and got ready to go to lunch and site seeing.  We ate at the Chalet which is also known as the Pie Shoppe.

 

Then we drove up to Yaquina Head Lighthouse so Mike and Patty could see the dock from the Japanese tsunami.  I caught Patty and Mike trying to take a picture of themselves with her phone. 

The seals today were on a different rock because the tide was in.

Tuesday night we all went to Nana’s for dinner.  Patty and I got the chicken pot pies, Wayne got the traditional corned beef and cabbage and Mike got fish and chips.  

Wednesday Patty and I went shopping and the men went to the Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum to see the Spruce Goose.  That is it’s own separate blog.  We found this darling boutique and sent a picture to Emily of a top that we thought she would like. 

 

We also found another dress for me to wear to my granddaughter’s wedding in December.

Wednesday night we went to the Green Gables Italian Restaurant for “All you can eat spaghetti.”  Yum.

Patty and Mike went walking on beach both Thursday and Friday mornings.  They walked all the way down to the dock both days. Friday morning Mike got interviewed by a TV reporter about what they should do with the dock.  He thinks they should make it into a bar.

Friday evening we drove to Lincoln City to have dinner at the Chinook Winds Casino.  When we got there we had to wait for a seat so we went to the restaurant/bar and had cocktails.

After dinner at the buffet we drove over to the little theatre to see the play “The Pearl.”  It was a fun play about mermaids who had rescued sailors and then fallen in love with them and become human.

 

Patty and Mike left Saturday morning for Seattle.  One last picture of the four of us.

Lunch with Nanette, Raymond and Karen

On Monday the 23rd, Raymond and Karen brought Nanette over to Newport to see us.  They were hungry for lunch at Mo’s.  Here are Wayne and Nanette.

 

And here are Raymond and Karen.

Nanette and Raymond are brother and sister and are Wayne’s first cousins.

Here are Wayne and I.

Since everyone except me were having clam chowder they got the family bowl.

They also ordered cheese toast to go with it.

 

After lunch we watched one of the fishing boats come in and unload their catch.  Then we drove up to the Yaquina Head Lighthouse so they could see the dock from the Japanese tsunami.

The seals and seagulls were in their typical places.

We went back to the coach to visit until they needed to leave for Eugene.  Raymond and Karen will spend another night with Nanette before heading home to Puyallup, Washington.

July 6 to July 19, 2012

We took Aimee to the airport on July 5th and have been recovering since.

Before Greg and Chris were to leave, the six of us went out to lunch at the Fishtails Cafe in Aquarium Village.  It was as unique on the inside as it was on the outside.

On the 11th we had to move from the site were had be in to a new site.  It is further away from Bob and Sandy and Greg and Chris. 

On the 12th I had to go to Corvallis to see the doctor again.  I got an “all clear” report which was nice.  I went by myself since Wayne had pulled a muscle.  On the way up I took a picture of the covered bridge at Chitwood.

On the 12th I got my hair and nails done and then came home to do some jewelry.  In the process I managed to pull a muscle in my back.  We are really a pair.

Finally on Wednesday the 18th we both felt good enough to get out.  We drove up to Lincoln City and made reservations at the Logan Road RV Park next to the Chinook Winds casino.  We will move there on August 1st and stay for two weeks before heading back toward Texas.

On the drive back we took the Otter Crest Road and stopped and took these pictures at Cape Foulweather.

This is the view looking towards the Yaquina Head Lighthouse that is on the point at the top of the picture.  There are often seals and otters on the beach to the bottom of the picture but it was high tide and we didn’t see any.

This is Gull Rock out in the ocean.  Didn’t see any gulls either.

Tonight Wayne is fixing crab cakes and Bob and Sandy are coming over for dinner.  It is the only way we know to return the favor for Bob picking up the check when we have eaten out.

Family Reunion – Last days and Time with Aimee

Monday was another late start for me.  Wayne went over to the house earlier and I stayed home.   Nola came over later and picked me up and brought me back to the house.  Then Lois and I went out for soup and pie and a nice visit.  We hung out around the house and visited most of the afternoon.

For dinner Wayne baked 12 filets of the fish that we caught on Sunday and it was delicious.  We visited some more after dinner then called it a day.

Tuesday morning we went over to the house early to say goodbye to everyone.  Mike and Michelle picked up the fish that had been flash frozen to take home with them.  Nola, Matt, Mike, Michelle, and Aaron left around 9:00 to head to Portland and the airport.

Lois, Jody, Joel and Nathan didn’t need to leave until a little later.

Aimee stayed with us.  That afternoon we went over to Aquarium Village and walked around.  We saw this neat sculpture of horses at the Pirate’s Plunder.

 

We spent a couple of hours at the glass blowers watching the master blow an octopus.

This was really interesting.  Aimee bought an encased jellyfish drop and I bought some broken glass that had been tumbled to make jewelry out of.

Wednesday Aimee and I made more jewelry and visited.  She is an amazing young woman.  That night we all sat around the fire with Bob, Sandy, Greg and Chris until time for the fireworks.  It was cold so we sat in the coach and had a ringside seat of the fireworks going off in the bay.

Thursday we went to breakfast at the Chalet and then drove Aimee to Portland to catch her plane to Calgary. 

We have had a wonderful week and a half  but we are exhausted.  It may take us a week or more to catch up.

Family Reunion – Sunday – Fishing

Sunday we had to be at the dock at 5:30am.  This is the boat we will be going out on.


Here we are some of us waiting and trying to wake up.


We got a beautiful view of the bridge on the way out of the harbor.

On the way out most of the kids sat on the engine cover.
 
Wayne and the women were smart and sat in the cabin.

On the way out the deck hands threw over eight crab pots.  We will pick them up on the way back in.
Jody caught the first fish.  Unfortunately it was a wild Chinook Salmon and we couldn’t keep it.  At least he got to fight it.
 
After trying unsuccessfully a few hours for salmon we headed closer in to bottom fish.  Unfortunately it seemed to get rougher as we got to the reef.

Here is Lois catching a rock fish.  The deck hand, Noah, is helping her to bring it in.

Here are Nathan, Noah, Matt, Mike, Wayne and Lois along the side.

Here are Aaron, Joel and Aimee fishing.

Here are Michelle and Aaron with Noah on the far right.

Here are Lois, Matt, and Michelle looking at the Cabezon that Mike caught.  It was really ugly but they say the uglier the fish the better eating it is.

Everyone who fished caught fish.  We had three buckets full. 

Because the seas were so rough, a lot of people lay down on the engine cover going back in.  A few of us got rather sea sick.

Then it was time to bring in the crab pots.  We were hoping for a good crop as they have soft shells right now and therefore less meat.
Here are Matt and Joel hauling in the first trip

Noah was allowed to haul it over the side.

Nathan and Joel hauled in some traps.
 
And here are Mike and Aaron hauling in a trap.
 
We also got three baskets full of crabs.  We are allowed to take home 12 per crab licsense.  That’s 60 crabs for dinner.  Yea.
 

We made it safely back to the dock where we took a group picture.  From left to right deck hand and owner, Jerry, Captain Doug, deck hand, Noah, Lois, Me, Wayne, Nola, Michelle, Mike, Nathan kissing the fish, Matt, Jody, Aaron, Aimee, and Joel.
  
The crabs were put in large pots to boil.  I think it took four pot loads to cook all the crab.
 
Here are Lois and Marynelle watching the fish being fileted.
 
There were five bags of cooked crab.  Here is Aaron with two of them.

And here we are at the dinner table with our crab for dinner that night.