Day Trip!

About this time each year we all start going a little stir crazy. We're ready for spring, ready to get outside and do things together as a family. Well, this year it's compounded by the fact that Brian is now on the water and no longer has weekends off with us. So when he got a surprise day off with the familky we took full advantage and headed on a day trip to the beach. We went to Long Beach, Washington, home of huge double-scoop waffle cones and Jake the Alligator Man. We walked the shops for a while, hoping and waiting for the rain to end. Alas, it didn't and the wind picked up too. In the end we never even made it down on the sand, instead watching the ocean from the van for a while before heading back towards home.

On the way home we decided to take a quick detour to Fort Columbia, something we've passed many times but have never stopped at. Thankfully the rain had passed on and the skies had cleared up some. The fort was beautiful! The history there and the old buildings were really neat. Even though we could only walk the outsides, we had a good time. This building was the most beautiful of them all.



And we got to walk around the batteries and see where guns were mounted to help protect the mouth of the Columbia River. It was pretty neat. At the battery nearest the ocean we took some pictures together...
... before heading back home. It was a quick day trip but fun and refreshing.