Goonies never say die! And sea lions never shut up!

For the past two days we have been exploring the oregon coast and all of its beauty. We started by driving north to Seaside and ended up getting a cute little room at the city center inn. It was one block to the beach and recently redone. Samus immediately made herself at home by hiding all five of her little mice under the bed and parking herself on the table by the window. We took the advice of the woman at the front desk and went to Norma's seafood and steaks and had one of the best meals of our lives! It was smoked chinook salmon with Alfredo sauce and pasta.

We also split a bowl of New England clam chowder and although it is a New England dish the best we ever had is now on the Pacific Northwest. The next day we walked down the the water and stuck our toes in, screamed about how cold it was and ran out.

We then grabbed so weird flavored sodas at a huge candy store and packed up the cat ( who is now riding on out laps in her cage due to her very loud protest in the back) and drove up to Astoria.

Now you may be asking "what's in Astoria ?" Well only the greatest house ever!!!! The Goonies House! If you haven't seen the Goonies go watch it right now. Which btw is owned by a really nice family who lets weirdos walk up on their lawn and take pictures and yell HEY YOU GUYSSsSsS!!!

While we were there I heard and saw my first sea lion!  After my mini freak out over the barking of the sea lions we drove up to the Astoria collum and climbed to the top to see the beautiful mist coming over the top of the trees onto the Columbia river. We threw some gliders off the top, met a dog named chewbaca, bought some pop tarts, and hit the road for California. Seven hours later we arrived to our motel in crescent city ca. 

That's it for now everyone! We're off to see some Redwoods!!!

Ps- Ben we did try to go to the oregon vortex but learned they were closed for the season. But we did learn that there Are no bugs or birds for a complete mile around the vortex! Weird huh?!?

Settling in

Hey everyone! 

our new rug

Brooke here. Just wanted to update everyone on how our lives are going. Everything is finally unpacked and put in its place in the apartment. Yay!!! Our little home is becoming quite cozy and the geek chic living room is coming together. Our galaxy rug just got in the other night and after yelling at the cat for about an hour we finally convinced her that her carpeted cat tree was a better scratching post that the rug. It ties the room together pretty well seeing that the War of the Worlds poster didn't have as much blue in it as it did in the online picture. 
The city is full of artists who are also nerds themselves so it has been had not to buy every Doctor Who or Firefly picture we see. We did meet a really cool artist at the market on saturday who we got to talk to for a while. His art was really cool and Lew and I are thinking about maybe having some of these pieces in the apartment. Here is his etsy page for other nerds  
On the topic of never growing up, I just got tickets to my first Comic Con! Sadly there will be no cosplaying because JoAnn fabrics decided to wait a week before shipping me the fabric and it wont get here in time... womp. I was planning on going as Fionna from Adventure time but i guess its my Doctor Who shirt and jeans. Lew will be working so I get to run around the Portland convention center all by myself geeking out about meeting Jewel Staite (Kaylee from Firefly)  and sitting in on some really great panels. Later on that night there is a after party and cosplay contest that I want to check out. 

The next day is Lew's triathlon that he has been trying to train for but his gym membership does not start till school starts so he hasn't had time to swim lately. He says he's not nervous about it because he is strongest at swimming. 

We have been learning about the city more and more. Lew has been running and biking around and getting lost so he always comes back with a cool new place he saw while he was lost. lol We also have taken up swing dancing and that has been really fun. Due to kicking the concrete stairs barefoot last week We didn't go on sunday but are planning on trying out a lindy hop place on wednesday night.  That should be interesting.