Second Day: At the Beach

On Tuesday, Kinnera and Hazel joined us at the beach, Bob Straub Park.

Hazel brought her French Horn... But the ocean was louder than she was.

Steve and the kids always build a fort at the water's edge for the tide to wash away eventually.

Johnny examined beach treasures closely...

 And rested...

The fort grew bigger and bigger with more and more embellishments. The tide took a long time coming...

Haystack Rock in the distance...

Steve is just a big kid, playing in the sand...

Hazel wrote praises to us and Kinnera made a maze...

Hazel also took a photo of Johnny and me but my teeth looked so yellow and ugly with one broken tooth in the front that I used Paint on the computer to whiten them. (I should not have admitted that...)

Of course, Johnny made his maze as usual and we all wandered around it trying to find a way out...

Another requisite activity at the beach is burying someone, at least one someone, in the sand...

This time it was Cedrus' turn...

Kestrel loves the sound of a French Horn and has used some in his musical compositions so he was delighted to be taught the basics...

Finally, the waves arrived...

We were going to eat at the Nepali restaurant in Lincoln City after the fort was finally washed away. Cedrus was hungry and trying to hasten the process while Kestrel held him back.

But finally the tide took the fort entirely away and we headed off for delicious Mango Smoothies and Nepalese food.