Day 2

Day 2

Today was just amazing. It started slow and kept on going the same way, which is just what I needed. Dave and I got up around 8 and dawdled around and had some breakfast. I also got more peaches out of the dryer, leaving just one tray to finish up. We got Tim up around 9 and had him get ready. The forecast for today was for clouds early, followed by showers in the afternoon. When I first got up it was clear but had been getting cloudier, so we thought we’d head into town and noodle around a bit, have lunch, and be home when the rains came. Much of our plan worked out. First stop was in midtown, to check out the new Irish restaurant. It looks delightful. Also next door to it is a new hardware store and public house, which is a real hardware store with beer on tap. An interesting combination and one we hope will succeed.

Then we headed downtown, where our first job was to get Tim something to eat, so we thought we’d head to the Cannon Beach cookie company. Dave and I had breakfasted there during his sabbatical, and they had good breakfast pastries. But when we got there, CBCC was no longer – it was somebody’s café, or something, and it wasn’t even open. So we kept moving north and came to Season’s café where Tim had a fresh out of the oven cinnamon coffeecake muffin (very, very yummy) and chocolate milk. Then we wandered around town for a bit, going in and out of stores looking for swag for geocaching and enjoying the sun, which was supposed to be gone by afternoon. In the place that used to be the explora-store there is a new toy store that had some excellent toys. We got a remote control helicopter that really flies, some buckyball magnets that are way cool to play with, and the chicken flicken game that is more fun to talk aout than to play, although it is fun to play. We spent the afternoon playing with our new toys and Dave took some time to read and nap on the deck, because it turned out to be a completely gorgeous sunny day, with no clouds all the way down to the horizon.

Dave and I were going to do a little geocaching but the tides (which are not very good this trip) did not cooperate. We will try again tomorrow. Ok, more about the bucky balls. They are little metal balls, about the size of a standard bb, made of “rare eart metal”. They’re magnetic. They’re fantastic. They come in a 6x6x6 cube, and getting them back in that shape takes lots of concentration. You can make some shapes out of them, like hexagons, that are very stable and want to stick together – if you stick two hexagons together they’s come apart as two hexagons. Well,, it’s more fun to play with than to read about.

For dinner we headed out to the Bistro, “memorable meals of honorable mention”, The food there is always good, and they have delicious desserts, And even though the lights are kind of dim, the service was pretty quick. They have a quirky wine list, and the wines tend to be somewhat unusual, and usually not the best. Tonight we had an Alsatian pinot gris which was not an exception.

After dinner we came home and made a fire, played a game of farkle, and now it’s time to do some heavy relaxing