Oregon

A couple of weekends ago I went down to Portland where some friends of mine live because some other friends from San Diego had taken a road trip up and were also visiting. It was a fun little reunion, and we did some sight-seeing on the coast. Here we are at Cannon Beach, Haystack Rock. A little trivia for ya: Cannon Beach was named because after an old war ship, the Shark, sank, some cannons from the ship were washing up on the shore. Wouldn't you think cannons would sink?




Next we went to Astoria, the place where Goonies was filmed!! Very exciting. We found the house, and down at the end of the driveway was a sign that said "Goonies on foot welcome, please no cars".


From the Goonies house we heard all these seals making a lot of noise so we went to go find them. We were amazed at how many were just chillin on the docks, sunbathing, swimming, talking... We wanted to get closer, so we bypassed the sign that said something to the effect of "Boatowners only". What? We could own one of those boats.


Also in Astoria they had "The Column" which was really more of a tower. There were about 200 steps on a tiny narrow spiral staircase that was nearly the death of me. But we made it and the view was amazing!

Here we are making our way up those dreaded stairs.






It was such a fun day and so good to see friends I hadn't seen in awhile! Miss you guys!