Hafta go Ocean!

Last week, we went to Brookings for our annual coast trip with the Morris family. We left on Friday and drove down to Ashland. By late Friday night (more like Saturday morning actually) the rest of the family had arrived. The hilight of our day Saturday was the tennis tournament Jake had arranged. I didn't play, as I still feel quite nauseous at night, so Shane competed with David, and they made it to the championship, losing to Jake and Stacey. Landon had fun throwing tennis balls around and playing on the playground at the park.

Sunday, we enjoyed our going to church and relaxing most of the day, but in the evening we had yet another tennis tournament - this time table tennis. I did compete in his one, and had a little more success, even almost beating David (well, at least keeping up with him for awhile). He ended up being the overall champion, so I didn't feel too bad.

Monday morning, we woke up early and drove to the coast. We stopped, as usual, at Smith River for lunch. It was a little cold, but Landon didn't seem to mind. He loved throwing rocks in the water, and by the end, his shirt was pretty much all wet from reaching in to get the rocks. Shane took Landon over to this little island in the river, and they found a frog over there, which Landon thought was pretty exciting.

We then headed to the beach. It was cloudy, but actually quite warm since there was no wind! We had fun reading, playing baseball, and digging in the sand. Becky was the only girl brave enough to go in the water. The rest of us were glad we didn't when we saw her get knocked over by a big wave and come up soaking wet! Poor Beck! Landon loved the water too, but his favorite thing was running away from it. "Water coming! Water coming" he would yell as he tried to get far enough from the wave.

The next morning, Becky and Nate had to leave early, but the rest of us headed down to the beach again. We dug a big hole for Landon to play in, and Jake dug him some pretty cool tunnels to drive his cars in. It was a lot sunnier, but also more windy! Landon still loved it though, and we had to bribe him with other exciting things back at the campground to get him to leave! He was so exhausted when we got back that he fell asleep in his stroller while we were watching a helicopter, and stayed asleep the rest of the night.

It was sad to leave the ocean Wednesday. We packed up that morning, then went to the beach one last time to eat lunch. We were attacked by some pretty daring chipmunks while we tried to eat, but we all survived. They would even jump up right next to us on the picnic table to try to get some food! We've been home for a week now, and Landon still says, "Hafta go ocean" whenever he sees water, or pretty much anytime! I guess he had fun too!

Check out the pictures of our trip on our slideshow!

http://picasaweb.google.com/shane.malan/AugustCoastTrip02/photo#s5104629739095000834