Saturdays are relaxing, Sundays are not

This morning I got the wordle in two! The down side is that this may have catapulted me solidly out of last place in my wordle group, meaning I’ll need to pay for next month’s competition.

We were up late last night and up early this morning – vacation is too much fun to waste in sleeping! Dave and I went for a short walk down to Haystack Rock and saw a wonderful rainbow. Other than that it was heavy duty relaxing all morning – blogging and knitting for me and a fire in the fireplace and working on the puzzle. The puzzle is challenging!

At 11 Dave and Josh and Jen headed up to Ft George in Astoria for lunch. I had decided I wanted some time to walk around Cannon Beach, so I didn’t go. My original plan was to have a crepe at the Creperie, but it turns out they are closed for the season. I ended up having tortilla soup at Kiki’s tacos (in the space which was Heather’s of sainted memory) and it was delicious. I have a good time wandering through the shops – town was more crowded than yesterday, but still not nearly as busy as it should have been. There’s a new shop where the discovery store used to be, with art supplies and art activities, mostly aimed at children and it looks very fun.

I got home about half an hour before the Astoria folks, who’d had a good time and good food. Our afternoon was much like the morning with the addition of napping. Dave tried to get a walk in before the rains returned and was not successful with his timing.

We had a delicious dinner at Newman’s, which is no longer run by chef John Newman (he died in a car accident in July). The menu hasn’t changed in 10 years or more, but all the food was delicious. A family came in with two boys and sat at the same table we sat at the first time we came with our boys, bringing back fond memories for everyone. Dave and I walked home. Last year at the Crab Shack (AKA Capt Kellogg) in the constant rain it seemed like the house wasn’t convenient to anything; this year with the better weather this location has been perfect.

After dinner we put the great Albert Finney Scrooge movie on for watching while we tried to finish the puzzle. The movie is good. We shall see about the puzzle…

Sunday

We finished the puzzle at about 10:30 after an all hands on deck, all out effort. A special shout out to Jen who did the grunt work of taking every one of the black pieces and trying them in every possible location. We needed a hint to figure out the mystery, although we would have gotten it if we’d not just wanted to go to bed.

We needed to go to bed so we could get up early for more eating – our new tradition of a farewell Pig’n on departure day. We pulled in as they were flipping the open sig and had a quick and delicious breakfast. All of us ate more than we thought we would.

Josh and Jen were packed up before Pig’n, and it didn’t take long for us to get ready to go – we were on the road by 8:30. We would have hung out with the view for longer, but we had matinee tickets that we just couldn’t bear to miss – Bugs Bunny at the Symphony!

On the way home we took advantage of our home automation to start the house heating up. We were startled and dismayed to walk into a cold house. Apparently the blower motor on the furnace went out, and the repair people can’t come until Monday. We have set up many heaters and started a fire in the fireplace, and I am looking forward to sleeping cold tonight.

Rainy, but still the same wonderful view. 
Thanks for being awesome, Sea Forever!