More Coastal Fun

We went to a kite store in Lincoln City cause that's what you do when you want to fly a kite in Lincoln City.  Ha.

These people really knew their kits.  They make them right there in the shop.  Being uneducated about kite flying, we asked for a little help.  We chose to buy an easy stand-there-and-hold-the-string type and another one that takes a bit more skill using two hands.  Kites can be expensive and we hoped not to break it on the first day.  One did break, but they had told us to bring it back in and they'd replace the broken part.

Here are some pictures.  The weather cooperated a little.  We had plenty of wind but not too much.  It rained some, but not too much.  We were determined to get some kite flying in while we were in Oregon...cause that's what you do on the Oregon coast.  Didn't you know?

Chelsea fell down backwards when she was trying to keep it up!  

We continued our drive down the coast after visiting Yaquina Lighthouse for the second time.  We hoped to get down to the Sea Lions Cave in Florence before it closed for the day, but we only made it to Newport.  We ate a late lunch there at the famous Moe's.  There are several Moe's along the coast of Oregon, but this one is the original Moe's.  When we'd tell people that we were going to the coast, most everybody said "You have to eat at Moe's and get their clam chowder."  So we did.

Or shall I say that Matt ate the clam chowder.  Nobody else cared about the "when in Rome" saying.  I didn't want to be a big seafood party pooper, so I ordered the grilled tuna salad sandwich.  Can you even call that seafood?  I grew up on eating tuna sandwiches, so it's not that big of a stretch for me.  It was really good and fattening.

Here is the harbor in Newport.  We walked along the street smelling the fishy air and listening to the barking sea lions.  We found them out on a pier.

 We stopped into a candy store that had salt water taffy in bins.  We filled a bag full of just about every kind they had.  Who can pass up taffy when you're at the beach?  Especially the good kind made right there in the store.  We bought way too much because I still have some up in the cupboard.  The taffy excitement has worn off.

We did a lot of driving on this day.  The rain was a bummer, but we still had fun.  A movie and a game of UNO by the fire was how we spent the stormy night together.