Seaside Day 5 - Tillamook

We decided to spend the day at the Tillamook Cheese Factory. It is about an hour drive from our condo. We had lunch, did some shopping, did the tour and had some ice cream. I bought a scarf since it has been so cold and Fredrik bought a "Man Cave" sign. Oh and we bought some cheese too. More to come since this was just part of our day!

On the way down to Tillamook, we stopped at a viewpoint. 

Linnea wanted to take photos on this trip. They were interesting!

Linnea took a lot of photos and these were our silly faces. 

After lunch, Linnea the cow made an appearance.

Linnea driving the Loaf Bus.

Lots of cheese! Linnea took this photo of the big blocks of cheese (called fourties because they weight about 40 lbs) and they are on their way to be aged. 

Another Linnea photo of the assembly line. The big blocks of cheese are cut into smaller blocks and then wrapped up and ready to be shipped all over the country. 

Linnea took this photo of the vats they used to use to make cheese. They still make smaller handcrafted cheeses in these vats. 

After the tour, we went outside to eat our ice cream. It was quite cold even though the sun was out. 

Seaside Day 4

Today the weather was starting to improve and the sun was out most of the day. We went shopping for a new kite for Linnea and she picked a Griffin. We also decided to visit the Seaside Aquarium and just missed them feeding the seals. The kids (ok, mostly Linnea) played with the hermit crabs and then we ate lunch at Shilo Inn. We returned to the aquarium for the 3pm feeding and that was a lot of fun if not a bit wet. Then we spent more time at the beach flying Linnea's new kite and Davin kept on digging in the hole he started the day before. 

Family photo

Seaside Day 3

We had a lazy day today. The weather was pretty stormy and didn't look like it would be any fun out there. We played games, watched movies and just took it easy. I like these kind of days. At the end of the day, the sun came out just in time for the sunset and a double rainbow appeared. The kids also decided that they wanted to swim in the pool at night so they could experience the cool lights that change colors. 

Sunset

Seaside Day 2

Today the weather was not great but that didn't stop us from having fun. It was mostly cloudy and maybe 50 degrees out? With the wind, it felt a lot colder. The kids insisted on starting off the day in the pool. It was cold outside but the pool was nice and warm. I stayed in the condo and let Rebecca watch the kids at the pool. After lunch we headed out to the beach to fly some kites and build some sand castles. Turns out, Davin likes to dig big holes in the sand. We also found out later that there was a huge Velella (cousin to the jelly fish) die off and thousands were on the beach. It was quite bizarre but glad I found this article that explained it all. We ended the day eating burgers, buying candy and a trip to Funland which is the local video arcade. 

Kids in the pool with Rebecca watching

Seaside Day 1

We had a pretty good drive from our house to Seaside and it only took us about 5 hours. We stopped at Costco in Federal Way to eat lunch and then it rained, sun, more rain, more sun, rain again, etc. until we got to Seaside. We had a choice to wait for a better room when we checked in so we went to eat dinner at Pig N Pancake which ironically is the same thing we did when we were here two years ago! I like the decor in our condo much better this time around but the layout is exactly the same as the condo we had two years ago too. 

Rain, sun, rain, sun...