Last Chance Summer Camp

We spent five days at Beverly Beach, a campground just North of Newport. In the mornings we'd head off and have a little adventure, and then head to the beach for the afternoon. We visited Yaquina Head and saw the lighthouse and harbor seals. The Aquarium was a lot of fun, the sea otters were very playful and the fish tunnels were fun as always. Joe had a great time shooting some video of the puffins. We also spent some time at the Hatfield Science Center which had a few new displays to see, although the octopus was taking a nap and not doing much. In the afternoon we'd head for the beach. The boys dug in the sand until we would let them jump in the waves. On colder days they had to wait a little longer before they could get in the water. This year we took bikes for the boys to ride at the campground. Joe, of course, is an old pro. But Tim still wasn't a very confidant rider until we got to the camp. He took off, did a great job, and was zooming around the campsite like crazy before long. It was a great end of year camp trip. The boys have one more week of vacation and then it's back to school.

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Thanks,
Stevie

Woodstock Festival

The Woodstock Festival was a bust this year. Not much to do, look at, or listen too. But at least the boys have fun climbing the rock wall.

We met Andy, Andrea and Sidra there, looked around for a bit, watched the boys climb and Sidra got a little face painting done. Then we ditched Woodstock Park and got some pizza down the street.

Luckily, the company was much better than the festival.

Wasco County Fair

We went to the Wasco County Fair in Tygh Valley on Sunday. Steve went to watch the demolition derby and gather material for the book he's working on. The boys went because they had to. Lucky for them there were some fun rides to do. As for Holly, she tagged along to keep an eye on everyone. The boys would go on some rides, watch a heat of the demolition derby and then go on some more rides. Tim lasted longer than Joe, so Joe took a break and Tim kept going on rides until we pulled him off. Holly took the pictures, Steve was shooting video. No real idea if he'll actually use a demolition derby in his story, but since it's a once a year event he wanted to get all the information he could.

This and That

We've been busy doing some odd things randomly here and there, but haven't been posting on the blog about them. So here's a little bit of a summary, if you call four paragraphs a summary.

We went to the Dufur Threshing Bee which had a lot of old tractors, horses pulling old farm equipment, and well, that kind of sums it up. It took a little work but we talked Tim into touching the Rodeo Queen's horse, Joe wasn't interested at all.

The Grandparents Denniston took the boys down to Bullwinkles Family Fun Center. They had a great time playing some putt putt golf, laser tag, climbing a rock wall, jumping on a trampoline, playing some arcade games, but mostly they enjoyed the bumper boats with squirt guns on the front. They were both completly soaked by the time they left.

The week before we went camping the boys did a golf camp out in Gladstone. It's a par 3 course run by a non profit dedicated to teaching kids golf. They had a good time despite the temperature being in the high 90s by the time I picked them up at noon.

While driving around the neighborhood last week we stopped at a garage sale and they had lots of golf clubs. The guy selling them was so glad the boys are interested in golf he gave them some old golf bags for free, a couple clubs for free and we spent ten dollars on a bunch of irons that are a little long, but will work great (for ten dollars).

Camping at Timothy Lake

We did a three night trip up at Timothy Lake taking Laverne and our two kayaks (Laverne is the canoe). We did lots of paddle trips around the lake but the boys' favorite thing to do was flipping the canoe over, starting at one end and trying to run up the underside and jump off the other end before losing their balance. Sorry, no pictures of that to share, although Grandma D might have some. Both sets of Grandparents came up for different days and that was fun to have guests to entertain up in the woods. When we weren't paddling we were swimming, playing games, or sleeping. Although it was a great time, we did appreciate the showers when we got home.