Day 3 -Yoga and Walking

Unlike yesterday, this morning was up-and-out – me to 8 am yoga class, and Dave for a walk. Yoga was good, faster and more difficult strengthwise than I’m used to. When I came out, Dave was sitting on the bench – he’d walked all the way from the house into town, about 5.5 miles. I drove us home and we hung out until lunchtime.

For lunch we headed to Warren House, getting there just after it opened. One couple got in before us and sat in our usual table, so we sat in a north-facing table which turned out to be pretty nice. Another couple sat in the table next to us, and we ended up chatting with them for most of the meal, which was fun. We told them about geocaching and the husband downloaded the app right then. Dave had a sausage sandwich from a local smokehouse that is supposed to be opening up next to my favorite show store, and it was very good. As we were leaving, we ran into Cindy Sirianni and her family – she used to work with Dave and they have a place here.

We stopped at the house & then headed to Nehalem Bay State Park for some geocaching. There were some around the campsite and some on the spit of land that goes between the bay and the ocean. We chose to look for the ones on the spit, which was the wrong choice. Dave found the first one, and we should have headed back to the campsites at that point. Instead we continued on, and then it was sandy, and the cache wasn’t on the main trail, and

then we’d gone so far that we were almost to the end of the spit and I’ve always wanted to go there. So we did. We didn’t bring water and I had the wrong shoes, but we made it to the beach. We stopped there for me to empty my shoes and Dave to do a little research, and we decided to skip the cache and walk back on the beach. It was very hot on the path but cool on the beach, and the sand was firmer, so it was a better walk. But it was a bit long for Dave who’d already put in all that beach walking in the morning. The climb over the dunes from beach to parking lot was a bit too far for both of us, and we were glad to get in the car and go home.  We’ll try for the other caches some other time. Dave was excited to announce that he had over 20,000 steps.

It’s an interesting day weatherwise, there’s a thick high cloud/smoke cover. So it’s not as hot as it could be, but quite humid on the beach. We have avoided downtown entirely so far, but the parking lots for Hug Point, Arcadia, and Oswald West have all been very full and overflowing. Probably not going to do Labor Day weekend at the coast again.

Dinner tonight was at Newman’s. We considered trying Restaurant Don’t, but things are still very crowded. So we went to Newman’s and had the chef’s Prix Fixe menu with wine pourings, which exceeded expectations.  Once again it’s too warm to sit indoors and have a fire, so we’re sitting outside smelling the smoke and watching the horizon slowly darken. I go back to work tomorrow, so tomorrow night’s blog, if there is one, will be by guest blogger Dave.