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Apr. 15th, 2008 01:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
verity83This morning we had continental breakfast courtesy of Microtel. They actually had waffle batter you could pour into waffle irons. We had that... and some toast and apple from our own food stash. We had to check out by eleven, so after we did that we went wandering out toward Astoria and spent a few hours at Fort Clatsop. Dan said he had often seen the sign but didn't know what it was. At first he beefed about the idea of paying $6 for us to be there but after wandering around a bit and seeing the museum he changed his mind. It was very educational and he remembered more about this leg of Lewis and Clark's journey than did I. They reconstructed the fort according to Clark's drawings and descriptions and it was really neat. We walked down one of the trails as well and then came back to the car and had sandwiches for lunch and the last of our sparkling cider.
Then we went to Ross to see if they had a scarf for me (I'd forgotten any sort of hat to keep my head warm). We found none we both liked, but we did find a new pair of flip-flops that was clean and shiny unlike my filthy ones that I bought three years ago when I visited Ginny - I finally threw them away because they were beyond cleaning up after the hike on Monday. We also found 600 thread count sheets, heather in colour, for $40.
We went over the bridge across this WIDE area of water between Astoria and Washington for the kicks of it. There is a neat historic place on the Washington side that we didn't have time to explore but I hope we can go sometime again - then we headed back to Manzanita so we could get to the office and be sure we got the key to the bungalow. They closed at five and we got there at ten 'til, so we were lucky, although they had assured me they would not forget again. So we went in and looked around. There was a gift basket. We were afraid that there would be champagne in it but there wasn't - it ended up being from Stevi herself, not the OceanEdge people, so there was some fruit and other yummy stuff in there. :-) The OceanEdge people had left us a bottle of sparkling cider, so at least we had some bubbly to drink that we *could* drink. We were also amused because our bed there had Dan's favourite thing in the world, flannel sheets. *cough* Lucky we had the sheets we bought! Well, I was amused. Dan not so much. Flannel sheets are to him what socks are to me - suffocation devices.
The house was really nice. We made ourselves some salad with Donna's lettuce and baby carrots and had some hot chocolate (a mix from Stevi's basket) and sat in front of the woodstove, which opened with a grate like a fireplace. Very cosy. We sat in the armchairs and talked about kittens and Bible stuff and what we liked and didn't like about the house. It was a really nice place, but it had a few not-so-lovely things, the chief one being two robin's egg blue doors in walls that were panelled in real wood. ! We really like the area out there all along the coast, especially the Seaside/Astoria area, and we talked about how nice it would be to get an acre or two and put a log cabin on it, and we really liked the living room of the bungalow and thought it would be fun to do something similar in our log cabin.
I was very much aching and paining from all the walking and such and I was very glad to go to bed.
Bas-relief on the outside of the visitor centre at Fort Clatsop.
I wonder if I can come into the fort?
Dan sits on a wet thing, the name of which we are not sure, but we think it planes wood or something. Info, anyone?
On a rock on the trail by the fort
In a dugout canoe
I found this entertaining.
A house in Astoria that... well, let's say few colour combinations could be ickier.
The view out of the bungalow's big front windows. Yummy!
The living room. We were very taken with it.
The fire and my husband.
Then we went to Ross to see if they had a scarf for me (I'd forgotten any sort of hat to keep my head warm). We found none we both liked, but we did find a new pair of flip-flops that was clean and shiny unlike my filthy ones that I bought three years ago when I visited Ginny - I finally threw them away because they were beyond cleaning up after the hike on Monday. We also found 600 thread count sheets, heather in colour, for $40.
We went over the bridge across this WIDE area of water between Astoria and Washington for the kicks of it. There is a neat historic place on the Washington side that we didn't have time to explore but I hope we can go sometime again - then we headed back to Manzanita so we could get to the office and be sure we got the key to the bungalow. They closed at five and we got there at ten 'til, so we were lucky, although they had assured me they would not forget again. So we went in and looked around. There was a gift basket. We were afraid that there would be champagne in it but there wasn't - it ended up being from Stevi herself, not the OceanEdge people, so there was some fruit and other yummy stuff in there. :-) The OceanEdge people had left us a bottle of sparkling cider, so at least we had some bubbly to drink that we *could* drink. We were also amused because our bed there had Dan's favourite thing in the world, flannel sheets. *cough* Lucky we had the sheets we bought! Well, I was amused. Dan not so much. Flannel sheets are to him what socks are to me - suffocation devices.
The house was really nice. We made ourselves some salad with Donna's lettuce and baby carrots and had some hot chocolate (a mix from Stevi's basket) and sat in front of the woodstove, which opened with a grate like a fireplace. Very cosy. We sat in the armchairs and talked about kittens and Bible stuff and what we liked and didn't like about the house. It was a really nice place, but it had a few not-so-lovely things, the chief one being two robin's egg blue doors in walls that were panelled in real wood. ! We really like the area out there all along the coast, especially the Seaside/Astoria area, and we talked about how nice it would be to get an acre or two and put a log cabin on it, and we really liked the living room of the bungalow and thought it would be fun to do something similar in our log cabin.
I was very much aching and paining from all the walking and such and I was very glad to go to bed.
Bas-relief on the outside of the visitor centre at Fort Clatsop.
I wonder if I can come into the fort?
Dan sits on a wet thing, the name of which we are not sure, but we think it planes wood or something. Info, anyone?
On a rock on the trail by the fort
In a dugout canoe
I found this entertaining.
A house in Astoria that... well, let's say few colour combinations could be ickier.
The view out of the bungalow's big front windows. Yummy!
The living room. We were very taken with it.
The fire and my husband.
