Sunday, May 22, 2005

Belated Mother's Day

The Smith Family headed off to Cannon Beach and the Grey Whale Inn this past weekend for a belated Mother's Day celebration. We were there last Mother's Day and thought the place was quite a deal. We weren't surprised that they had raised the rates, but we were appalled when the original bill for our two night stay came to $1790.00! After Mac's persuasive arguing, we got them down to one-tenth the original charge - then it felt like we were getting a great deal again!

Weather reports were for sun all weekend; turns out weathermen are human too! We did get a good rain-free morning on Saturday and did lots of exploring around Oswald West and Nehalem Bay State Parks. By the afternoon, though it was pouring so we took advantage of the Inn's free movie check-outs. We left pretty early Sunday morning since it was still raining, but the sun came out just in time for our stop to see the largest Sitka Spruce in the U.S. Fortunately, not many others were visiting this exciting landmark, so we figured our parent-of-the-year awards wouldn't be in jeopardy if we left Megan asleep in the car while we went to view this giant; we were back in our car just as fast as we could walk around the trunk's 56 foot diameter and Megan certainly didn't lose any sleep over missing out.



Oswald West


Nehalem

We spent the rest of the afternoon getting ready for the arrival of my mom, who will be taking over daycare duty for the next two weeks. I am not sure "Nana" realized her job would be starting at 6:30 in the morning! But that's better than Mac and I, who have been getting up to entertain our little early bird around 5:30 the last few days.

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