The Souvenir

The trip to Seaside was too short!  Nobody was ready to come home but work and homeschooling were waiting. So we made plans to come back and visit Seaside again soon.

Kylie and Clara found a neat souvenir at the aquarium.  It is a necklace that comes with a mussel, preserved in a can.  You can take it home, crack open the mussel, find your pearl and then put it in your necklace.  It was fun and educational.  We had to look up how pearls are formed in the wild.  We found out that most pearls are cultured.  A tiny piece of tissue is implanted into the shell and that starts the process.

Here they are finding their pearls and putting them in their necklaces.

Kylie:

Inside the see-through can

My girly girl isn't so sure she wants to do it at this point

Opening the shell

Tucked down in the layers, there it is!

Putting the pearl in the necklace

And Clara:

Not as timid as her sister

Oregon Coast Day 3

This was the day we headed down to Tillamook area.

We hit the cheese factory again.  I won't post a ton of pictures because I did last time.  But we had a fantastic lunch, ice cream and a better tour of the factory.  There were no crowds this time so we really got to see what was going on and browse the gift shop.

Photo credit to Tillamook county

Tillamook County Pioneer Museum

Unfortunately we took so much time at the cheese factory that we only had about 45 minutes here before it closed.  Why is there never enough time to see everything we want to see?

We will come back here and spend more time next time. 

No matter how many of these museums I go to I am always impressed at how gifted people were.  I could just stare at each one of these baskets for several minutes if I had time.  They were so intricate and well made.

And again, the time that must have gone into each of these arrowheads and the tools below.  It was fun to look at the tools made by the local tribes and try to figure out what each was used for.

Beaded pouches

The museum seemed to be in what was an old bank.  One of the displays was in what had been a vault. 

They had a hands on basket weaving table.

These were a couple rooms set up as they had been when people were first settling in the area.

The first official settler in Tillamook county, Joseph Champion, arrived and set up camp in a tree stump.

Just a couple snapshots of a rather impressive collection of old weapons.

Can you imagine having to mold each of your bullets?

Oregon Coast Day 2

The second day we planned to stick around Seaside.

Hotel Lobby

  I won't over post pictures of the aquarium since I posted quite a few when we were here in September.

Feeding the seals is one of the kids favorite things to do here.

 

Kids on the pramenade.  It was pretty windy!

I don't think Jacob was going ride until he saw they had pig.

Carosel in the mall.  We needed to come in out of the wind and rain for awhile!

Oregon Coast End of Day 1

A second post about the end of this day because it was too much for one post.

After we checked into the hotel we asked them to recommend a pizza place.  They recommended Harbor Pizza.  You walk in and you are thinking it is kind of a pizza dive.  But it grows on you!  And they have the most delicious pizza we have had in a long time! 

They have long wooden tables and wooden benches.  Made you feel like you were in the galley of a pirate ship. They have these boats all around the room.

Jacob WAS the entertainment.  He got compliments!  One lady even came up before she left to tell him he had real talent and she hoped he would keep playing as he gets older.

The girls and mom got a Greek Pizza

Daddy got an all meat

Then when Driving back to the hotel we saw the Oscar Mayer mobile!  Neither of us had ever seen it in our whole lives so we had to take pictures!  Glad we did because it was gone when we drove back by the next morning.