We arrived Thursday afternoon and were able to have the pool all to ourselves in the evening. We swam for a couple of hours and nobody bothered us. Friday night we started out alone but after an hour or so a couple of families joined us. Actually, their kids joined us in the pool while the adults just sat around reading. Kylee and I felt like awesome parents because we were actually playing with our kids. No swimming on Saturday or Sunday. The pool was too busy.
Our inside time was spent playing games, and watching a couple of movies. Our main game was Uno. The girls had never really played it before so we did some instruction and then played standard Uno for a while. Kylee got antsy and wanted to play jungle Uno because regular Uno was too slow. After we felt the girls had a good grasp of out-of-the-box Uno we introduced them to jungle Uno. I don't think Laila ever really caught on, but everybody else loved it. That was the game we kept going back too. Monopoly went well too but the money got stretched a little thin with six people playing.
On Saturday we went for a drive. We checked the tides and headed down to Devil's Punch Bowl when the tide was almost all the way out. The weather was beautiful and we had a lot of fun running around the beach, climbing rocks and checking out all of the little pools for whatever marine life happened to get stuck there.
After that we went up to Otter Crest and saw a couple of grey whales. They have a very nice observatory on top with windows all along the north and west side of the building. They have binoculars available for people to use as well. It has the atmosphere of a library which Kylee realized after she openly expressed her excitement about seeing a whale surface. It surfaced good. Other people got excited too but Kylee was very excited.
On the way back to Lincoln City we stopped in Depoe Bay and wondered around the board walk for a while. The kids each bought a souvenir and we also bought two bags of saltwater taffy because we couldn't decide what flavors to get. They're all so pretty and colorful and tasty. We finished both bags before we got home because they all tasted so good. Home in Beavercreek, not Lincoln City. It did take us a couple of days to it them all.
We've always enjoyed going on vacation as a family but it seams to be more enjoyable now. There's more time talking and laughing and playing games. We don't have to change diapers, feed babies so they'll stop crying and make sure they don't aimlessly wander off. They're all old enough to not eat sand, feed themselves and do the dishes. They still ask for food all day long but that's just part of growing up I guess.
