I started out the morning by making reservations to go see
my new niece. In the nothing is ever easy category, the flight I wanted to take
to SFO wasn’t available to purchase using miles online, so I had to call Alaska
Airlines and purchase it over the phone. The agent was very nice, and I
especially liked when she was spelling out my confirmation code… F as in Foxtrot,
T as in Tom, Y as in Unique. Wait, what?
Today was open house day, with several people coming out to
visit, but the first wasn’t expected until after 10 and ended up getting here
after noon. So we had a lovely slow morning – Dave went for a walk while I did
my singing practice. Even though the tide was about halfway in, he was still
able to walk around the front of hug point with only a little wading. I had a
very nice practice. When he got back we had some more quiet time, then got
showered up and ready to go in to town. He went in to get us a table at Bill’s
while I looked in Ter Hars to see if they had any leisure pants – the ones I
got there many, many years ago are wearing out. They didn’t.
A few minutes after I got back to Bill’s and got my beer
Tracy got there, and we had a nice lunch. I got the chili dog which was good
but really, when you’re at Bill’s you should get a burger. After lunch we were
going to go to CB Distillery but they are closed on Wednesdays, so instead we
went and found a geocache. It was one that we’ve found twice before, but never
remembered to mark that we’ve found. Now we have.
We got back into town and I stopped in at Sea Soles to see
if they still had the fabulous sequined flip flops that I saw when we came here
July 3rd. They don’t – phew! That saved me some money. While I was
there Jen called to say they were almost to town, so I sent them to the house.
When I got there Jen was studying for a test and Josh was reading on the deck.
Dave and Tracy stopped in town to get a bottle of rose for sipping on the deck.
We had a mellow afternoon of sitting on the deck sipping
rose and drinking iced tea, going down to the beach, and napping (I think I’m
the only one who napped). Jen and I dug a small hole down by the wet sand and I
taught her to make dripstone, although it was very windy and sand kept blowing
in our faces. We went to Newman’s for dinner and introduced Tracy to some
family favorite songs, like Baby Monkey, Shopping Penguin, and the Arthur CD on
the way home.
It was pretty warm here today – not compared to inland, of
course, but warm for Cannon Beach – so when we got home we opened up all the
windows and even turned on the fan. It was a good thing we cooled it off,
because we had a hotly contested game of trouble between Josh, Dave, Tracy and
me. I lost. Then Josh and Dave and I played some pepper. I lost. I did a very
good job of being a good sport about all that losing, and Josh did a good job
of showing joy in its pure form when he won the last game of pepper. Dave won
everything else. It is fun to have a full house, especially with the second
bathroom.
Confidential to SFO: you have 3 weeks to prep Avery for the
Exploratorium
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