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We didn't do much wave jumping or frisbee playing...we did old people stuff like puzzles and reading.
 But of course...each beach trip has to include (by tradition) the building of a family sandcastle.
 I started to head up the stairs to the house and looked back just in time to get this picture of the tide coming in to sweep over the afore mentioned castle.
 The castle seemed to mostly survive -- good thing there was a big moat!
 The humidity gave Madeleine a never before seen surprise curl.
Clark named himself the designated picnic / car lunch maker.
 We took a day trip into Crescent City California to see Battery Point Lighthouse. It is an operating lighthouse that gives tours and lets you go up into the light tower. The keepers are cute couples that apply to live and work there for a month -- giving tours, runing the gift shop and taking care of the light and the grounds.
 The children.
 Madeleine with her new boyfriend.
 Waves are so great -- they just keep coming and going.
Well, maybe not so great when you leave your flip flops a little too close to the incoming tide and the ocean swallows one and keeps it. So sad for Elliot.
 Watching the kids get wet and lose flip flops.
 Just hangin' out. Seeing the boys sharing the couch reminded me of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory's grandparents.
 About 20 minutes from our house on the coast was Loeb State Park with a great clean river.
 It wasn't nearly as cold as the ocean, but still a bit chilly -- mostly because it was a bit windy.
We were wishing we had some kayaks like some of the people there. That would be fun if we ever go again.
 Everday Alan and I would go walking in the mornings and we discovered tons of blackberry bushes all along the roads. They seemed to be rather wild and unkempt with berries just going to waste. So a couple different mornings we sent Alan out to get us some for breakfast -- they were so great on oatmeal! Yum!
 The Northwest coast is always on the cool side and this trip was no execption. I don't think the temperature ever hit 70 degrees, so the mornings especially were chilly and Madeleine and I were wishing we had brought our slippers. But never fear, Fred Meyer was close by and we found these oompa loompa slippers on clearance for 6.00. And so our feet were happy feet.
 Of course on the drive back home we hit 100 degrees crossing Nevada and simply had to cool off with some ice cream from the gas station.