Cannon beach round 2 (for Kevin)

I will be the first to admit I was not to happy about this trip, but survived nonetheless. OHSU took all the first year class to Cannon beach for a dental conference and a sort of get to know your classmates thing. However, none of the spouses were allowed to go. Kevin left early Thursday morning and spent the day in meetings and relaxing on the beach playing frizbee and having bonfires. I spent the day with the other dental wives at a picnic and swimming (thank goodness or I might have gone crazy). They stayed at a hotel right on the beach. Lucky huh! 

The next day Kevin had some team building activities where they had a sand castle building contest. The theme was Olympics. This is his teams sand castle (The London Bridge).

When Kevin arrived home at 5 on Friday I was a little excited! I was glad he was able to go and get to know his classmates but I sure wish I could have gone with him :) 

Great Wolf Lodge

Before Kevin started school the Berg family was able to sneak in a little family reunion.  The reunion was at Great Wolf Lodge in Grand Mounds Washington. The night before Pat, Stacey, and Carly stayed the night at our place (It's kind of nice to be the middle town). The next day we headed up there and met EVERYONE else. Yes I said everyone was there except sweet little Crew of course. Anyways we spent the day exploring the hotel and playing in the water, going down all the slides, and really enjoying the wave pool. 

That night we had a yummy dinner together as a family and enjoyed watching these cute little wolves. The night was then ended with all the boys playing in the arcade. Talk about competitive (I see where Kevin gets it now)

The next day was another day of fun. We played lots and had some more family time. We however had to separate that afternoon. It was a great get together with the Berg family and we were sad to see everyone go but it was fun to get together with everyone! Thanks Pat and Stacey for a great weekend! 

Cannon Beach

I was always told that the Oregon coast is beautiful but always a little bit chilly. So when we were told that the coast was supposed to hit 89' degrees we jumped at the opportunity to go to the beach, and so did everyone else. The coast is supposed to take an hour and a half however due to traffic, it was about 2 hours. However once we got there we were thrilled to enjoy the sunshine. The weather was perfect!  A slight breeze, lots of sunshine, and lots of relaxing. We laid out for a while, attempted to get in the water a couple times (even though it was warm the water was still freezing!).

After relaxing for a couple hours we decided we wanted to take a walk on the beach. We took all our stuff back to the car so we could go walk around, and then started heading back to the beach. My blood had been running low, and so as we were walking away Kevin asked if we should grab some kind of food and take it with us just in case. We turned back, I opened the trunk, grabbed some crackers, closed the trunk. I then turned to Kevin and asked "do you have the keys". His reply was "no you used them to open the trunk". Oops they were still in the trunk. Kevin started panicking a little bit and for some odd reason I was really calm, which i think was a little annoying to Kevin. We proceeded to call the sheriffs office and see if they would come unlock it. The lady said no they do not so I would have to call a locksmith to come unlock it. It was then that I remembered Triple AAA. Thank you mom and dad who have AAA on there cars. We called and within the hour the locksmith had come and unlocked the car! Whew.

So after our little mishap we went for our walk down the beach and enjoyed the beautiful scenery and weather for a little longer. We even managed to get a sunburn on the Oregon coast (didn't know that was possible).

Keeping Portland Weird

Here is a quick glance at a few of the adventures we snuck in before Kevin started school.

Portland from Mt. Tabor

OHSU from Mt. Tabor

Wilderness Trail in Forest Park  it is one of the biggest parks in the U.S. 

Downtown Portland

What you do not see behind us is the beer festival that is going on. Can you say wake up call .