Saturday we took a trip to Seaside Oregon. Jon stayed home....to have independence I suppose, so it was just the three of us this time.
All along the way it was incredible to see the damage from the storm that came through here the first part of December. The storm had hurricane winds that devastated both Washington and Oregon and left the mountain forests a horrendous mess. It also dumped so much rain that it caused terrible flooding all over for hundreds of miles. (Jon helped with the flood relief with Mormon helping hands)). Anyway, we saw first hand the thousands and thousands of trees destroyed on our way over the coast mountains. In this area we were able to stop, but just driving down the road it was incredible...trees down everywhere. In this place, the oldest living sitka spruce tree in the U.S. and the oldest living thing in all of Oregon was snapped in two. Very sad.
We stayed at a hotel on the beach...here Richard and Josh act up while I take their picture from our balcony. Our room was pretty, but the wind was so strong that our patio door creeked all night long and it was hard to get to sleep. But....what a beautiful view!!
Josh had alot of fun doing what he loves the most....DIGGING!! It was very cold outside and he had a blast digging. The wind was howling and Richard was freeezing outside with him (I was in the nice warm car watching the ocean), but he stayed out with Josh for over an hour.
Here he is building a bridge in this little river. He finally had to get in the car when it started hailing really bad, but he had a great time, even though he was soaking wet. He changed in the car:) We stayed until the tide got up far enough and took out his work.
All along the way it was incredible to see the damage from the storm that came through here the first part of December. The storm had hurricane winds that devastated both Washington and Oregon and left the mountain forests a horrendous mess. It also dumped so much rain that it caused terrible flooding all over for hundreds of miles. (Jon helped with the flood relief with Mormon helping hands)). Anyway, we saw first hand the thousands and thousands of trees destroyed on our way over the coast mountains. In this area we were able to stop, but just driving down the road it was incredible...trees down everywhere. In this place, the oldest living sitka spruce tree in the U.S. and the oldest living thing in all of Oregon was snapped in two. Very sad. 
We stayed at a hotel on the beach...here Richard and Josh act up while I take their picture from our balcony. Our room was pretty, but the wind was so strong that our patio door creeked all night long and it was hard to get to sleep. But....what a beautiful view!!
Josh had alot of fun doing what he loves the most....DIGGING!! It was very cold outside and he had a blast digging. The wind was howling and Richard was freeezing outside with him (I was in the nice warm car watching the ocean), but he stayed out with Josh for over an hour.
Here he is building a bridge in this little river. He finally had to get in the car when it started hailing really bad, but he had a great time, even though he was soaking wet. He changed in the car:) We stayed until the tide got up far enough and took out his work.
