My mom and i and decided to take a weekend(well my mom's weekend,friday and saturday) trip to the coast with my daughter. My daughter loves car trips and going to the coast, luckily for where we live, it's just a day trip away when actually planned, just nice to spend a few days there instead of a few hours.
The trip down to Lincoln City was pretty basic. Got out about an hour later than my mom wanted to and ended up getting into town after dark, which my mom doesn't like driving roads like the ones we take in the dark. And since it was dark, we didn't get to do anything once in town, just hung out at the hotel and slept.
My mom didn't get very good sleep because my daughter was jumping around and wouldn't settle down, which is about normal the first night in a hotel. If she was to just sit in my bed and stayed there then it would of been fine most likely but she kept getting on and off my mom's bed and keeping her awake. Finally she ended up falling asleep late into the night and then woke up really early full of energy.
We started the day with breakfast from the hotel, nothing extremely special but was good.
We had to actually make sure we went on the beach for a little bit while we had good weather, so we headed across the street to the beach. Got some fun pictures and someone walking by offered to take our picture, which is probably one of the only picture(s) of all three of us together. Next some pictures will be from our short bit on the beach.
Then after getting back from the beach, we started to get ready to drive down to Newport to go to the Ripley's museum, the wax museum, and the undersea garden. Kaylee, my daughter, was excited to go to them, wanting to see the museums and the fishies, but she DID NOT like it when we were actually at them. She is almost 4, so understandable i guess. She was also excited to see the sea lions but we all were disappointed that they were working on something so the sea lions weren't really close enough to see.
After trying to see the sea lions, we went to Ripley's first. Kaylee did alright at first, when waiting to get the ticket. once we were in, she wanted out. She liked the harp in there, but that was about it. Here's what pictures i took while there.
There were some new things there from the last time i was there and there was some things that was still the same. Same with the wax museum.
After Ripley's, we went to the undersea garden, there was going to be a feeding show going to happen, we had never seen it before so we went there instead of the wax museum for the second stop. Kaylee didn't really like going down the stairs and then something kept scaring her, i'm not sure what because each time she got scared was while she was by my mom and would come running to me. Don't think it was the fish because i got her to watch them and tried to get her to name them. Could of been that because i wasn't in view, but i don't know. We ended up not seeing the feeding because i didn't want to stay down there by myself and Kaylee wasn't going to last down there so my mom took her back up to look at the gift shop. I took a few pictures, but nothing really worth sharing here, if anyone gets interested, then i can edit this and add some.
Kaylee was also probably just getting tired. She barely slept and hardly ate breakfast, so it was probably getting food and nap time for her. My mom took her to the car and stayed there with her while i went to the wax museum. As my mom pointed out, it probably would of scared her anyways if she went in there. It gets a little boring to do things alone, but i still enjoyed getting to go again. There were new things and there was things that i wanted to get new pictures of since my last time there. Here's what pictures i took from there.
After that we stopped at a mcdonalds drive thru to get food. then headed back to the hotel. After we got back, we decided to walk over to the 3 little shops by the hotel to see if there's anything we wanted, just a little more shopping. Probably bought more than we should of, i think i have a shopping problem at times and my mom doesn't often say no, especially when it comes to Kaylee. Anyways, got some things from 2 of them and then the third one was a snack/candy store. Got a little bit of candy, some ice cream, and a small thing of caramel corn.
We went back to the hotel, watched a few movies and my mom also went over to a close by chinese restaurant to get dinner. Had some AMAZING coconut chicken. My mom must of been exhausted because not long after she ate, she was passed out on the bed and nothing Kaylee did really seemed to wake her this time. After the movies were over, i watched american dad and family guy, once those were over i was able to get Kaylee settled down and we went to sleep.
Next day was time to leave. We packed up and left the hotel at check out, around 11 am. We didn't really have breakfast because we planned to go to one of the casinos to get food at the buffet. Once we parked and about to get Kaylee out, she started asked for a pair of sunglasses we got at one of the little shops because it was sunny out. We searched and searched the car for the bag of sunglasses, i got a few too, and we couldn't find them. Stressed my mom out a bit because we couldn't find them. I gave Kaylee the pair i had on me and we went to go eat. While eating, my mom thought that she might of left them at the snack shop we went to. We couldn't be for sure right then, so we just enjoyed the buffet. Kaylee enjoyed the ice cream she got to have.
My mom had been in contact with my dad who found the number for the snack shop and called them for us to see if they sunglasses were left there. Turns out they were. We were only about half an hour away from there so we drove back after eating to get our sunglasses back. I wasn't too worried about if mine were gone, but Kaylee missed hers.
These were the glasses that we had to go back for.
I think that's about all to really share on here for this trip. here's some pictures of things we bought while there.
Top pair were the ones i already had from a different trip. the other 3 are my new ones.
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