Day 5 ends with a musical

I had a wonderful slow start to my morning, knitting and sitting looking out at the ocean. Dave walked down to the Arch at Arch Cape and reports the lowest sand he’s ever seen. Jen and Tabetha walked through the thick fog to Arcadia Beach, and I brought them home. Tristan slept in, and when we got back from Arcadia beach he and Tabs took off for Portland.

Yesterday Jen left her water bottle at Pig’n,  so she decided to hang out here and go to town to get it. This let her go to Bill’s for clam chowder for lunch. Dave and I headed up to Fort Clatsop, with a stop at Fort George for lunch. They had a wonderful kolsch with matcha, which I mention here because it’s my favorite beer ever and I want to memorialize it in case they don’t have it again.

After lunch we headed to Fort Clatsop to do some hiking. We hiked on 4 trails: Fort to Sea, Kwis Kwis, Kwis Kwis connector, and Clay Pit to make a big loop. We should have worn shorts – it was a beautiful sunny day, temps in the 70s, a little warm for hiking. The trails don’t really go anywhere in particular, just walking in a beautiful forest. Except the clay pit trail, which goes by the location of where the Lewis & Clark expedition got clay. We got to the end of it and wondered how we missed the clay pit, then realized that the unlabeled marker we passed must have been it. All we could see there were big plants, and in fact it was so nondescript we didn’t even take a picture.

 

Dave drove home while I napped. Jen was home hanging out on the couch. Dave bundled up and read on the deck for a while. It’s cooler here than in Astoria, and there’s a hazy remnant of this morning’s fog in the air. It feels like this day didn’t have much going on, but somehow it felt very busy, and suddenly we needed to leave for dinner and I hadn’t had a shower yet.

We powered through that and got to the Bistro more or less on time. The Bistro has been a reliably good restaurant, but tonight was an off night, at least I hope that’s what happened. When we got there my first thought was disappointment because the menu really hasn’t changed, but then it turned out it HAS changed, in that they no longer have my favorite salad dressing AND they messed with the chocolate ganache dessert, widely known as the best dessert in Cannon Beach, but not anymore – whose idea was it to put cherries in the chocolate ganache? Also the service was very weird, with the servers running (literally) back and forth but somehow no food coming. So, hmm. We shall see.

Fortunately we were done in plenty of time to walk over to the Coaster Theater for “The Musical of Musicals: A Musical”. It was the best show we’ve seen there. We think it would have been even funnier if we’d gotten all the references, but as it was we were laughing pretty much non-stop. I offered to get Jen a Coaster Cookie but she was too full.

Now we are back at the house, sitting and watching it get dark, listening to the sound of the waves. The sky is slowly getting darker and the trees are turning into silhouettes.  Venus is shining brightly through the window, and it’s lovely and quiet and peaceful. Not to mention how wonderful it is to have three comfortable chairs.