I'm back from vacation

My family reunion (and by family I mean my siblings and parents) went to Arch Cape Oregon this year. It was a lot of fun. I missed the 100 degree heat wave ... I was in sunshine but the temp never got above 75... at the right is a picture of me on the beach at sunrise to make everyone wild with envy.
The only place that had cell phone reception was 5 minutes away at a leisurely pace ... but the beach had the best reception and that was only 8 minutes walking from the bungalow we rented (the picture is of the beach at sunset).
We went to Seaside, and Astoria (yes, I saw the Goonies House) we also went fishing in the Ocean, 16 miles out for salmon. Apparently it was one of the worst fishing days in history. The only fish we could keep had to be hatchery (not native) and big enough. My brother says he has never gone where no one has reached their limit (2) but on our trip, we caught a total of 4 keepers among the 6 of us. The only thing I caught was a silver that we had to throw back ... the fish was impressive anywhere else but too small to keep there. Which was dissapointing at first ... but then seeing my family clean and chop their salmons into filets made me actually glad I didn't catch anything ... I may never eat fish again. We split the fishing into two days so that Ryker wouldn't have to sit still on a boat in a life jacket for several hours. He doesn't sit still well.

Being that far out on the ocean, on a cloudy day along the Oregon/Washington coast is freezing. I have one picture of me on the boat, I'm wearing a levi jacket, and a hoodie, and still my lips are blue and it took days to warm up. With windchill it was around 30 degrees. I havn't managed to get it off the second digital camera chip (I can't find the second chip) but I've seen it before so I know its there

The highlight of my trip was hanging out with my nephew Ryker who will be 2 on the 13th of this month. He's talking and he's practicing his colors. He has a hard time saying the "r" sound so red he doesn't try ... the others sound like this: lello, onnnnnge, geen, boo, pp, and pinnnnnk. The easiest way to get him to say his colors is to bribe him with food.
The day his parents fished we took him out to lunch and he didn't want anything to do with my other brother and sister, he wanted me to hold him, me to cuddle with him, and me to smear ketchup all over while he was eating his french fries. He is the cutest in the world. If I have red-head kids, I want them to look just like him.

We did a lot of sight seeing when we were there. That's one of the things we do. We have a lot of cool scenic pictures. Here's one from Cape Meades ... which has the smalled light house in Oregon near it. The light house didn't get into this picture but its still fantastic anyway.

Hope everyone had fun this summer, and everyone who is looking has found a job.