I’m having more and more trouble making myself get the blog updated. I post a lot of stuff on Facebook, and I’ve been trying to keep up with editing all the pictures. By the time I’m done with that I usually don’t have the energy for the blog.
Anyway, we spent a week in Astoria. Its right at the mouth of the Columbia River. I think its about 10,000 people. We really liked it here, its very beautiful. I think I might feel hemmed in living in town though, there are a lot of zero lot line houses. But maybe, we did see some with a bit more yard. Some of the prices were pretty reasonable too. We’re still trying to figure out what we want to do to make a living, so living in town rather than a bit more rural is still an option. It didn’t take me long to figure out that if we move here, one of the first things I’m going to do is cut my hair. The wind blowing it in my face all the time drove me nuts. I’d go ahead and cut it now, but it would be a pain to have to start finding salons along the way to keep it cut.
We went to see the Column, which was really cool. Go read about it if you have a minute, its really interesting. The big bummer though, was not being able to climb up to the top. The stairs are being replaced, and were supposed to be installed the week we were there, but the recession caused layoffs at the stair factory, so now they don’t know when it will be open again.
We did some letterboxing and geocaching, which took us to the Wet Dog Cafe. It was really tasty. I had a Clucker Burger, which has a fried egg on top. It was SO good!
We went to the Columbia River Maritime Museum, which the adults thought was interesting. The kids, not so much. They were a bit obnoxious, but liked playing on a big torpedo and the giant anchor outside.
One of my favorite things here was the Peter Iredale shipwreck. Its a ship that ran aground in 1906, and the skeleton is still on the beach. Its in a state park, and its so neat that everyone has access to it. We also started talking to a woman who taught us how to dig for razor clams. We helped her for awhile by keeping her 3 year old son happy playing, so she could stay longer. She’s from Montana, been in Astoria for 10 years and loves it. I’m still kicking myself in the butt for not getting her name and email address.
Caitlin really wanted to go across the big bridge, the Astoria-Megler Bridge, so we did that one afternoon. Washington State is right across the river, so we took a day trip to Washington, and made the kids very happy.
