Life's a Beach!

Rich and I were planning on going camping this weekend...but with all the burn bans across the state (and our love for the Olympics)...we ended up doing a day trip to the beach on Saturday.

We hopped in the car early on Saturday morning and headed for Ocean Shores - the beach was extremely foggy so we headed a little further down to a marina and enjoyed a walk on the beach. We were amazed by the hundreds of Seagulls...thank goodness we didn't get any "droppings" on our heads.

We stopped for a bite to eat at this little deli on the beach.
It was an amazing view and the food was pretty good too!

Our little lady buy!
Good luck to us - yeah!
(She/he followed us back to the car and travelled to our
next destination via the Honda).

If anyone has ever seen Rich before 11am...
then no explanation is necessary.

We packed it in at Ocean Shores and headed further south to Westport. On our trip down, we stopped at a little winery and did some tasting and just enjoyed the view together.

This is the view from the car on our way to Westport.

We arrived in Westport and walked around the marina area and checked out the vendors. There was a local street fair going on so we checked out some of that and then the outside fish museum. Pretty fun stuff....of course, the museum had labeled a fish wrong (Steelhead and it was a Salmon, or vice-versa )...and Rich was quick to point it out). I love his passion for the facts!

Who knew...Little Richard's House of Donuts.
We didn't stop in, but I couldn't resist the picture opportunity.

A little future down at the home of the Pelican was a restaurant that claims they have "Washington's Best Bloody Mary"...it was delicious and so were the garnishments (olive, green beans, beef stick, cheese, tomato and celery). CRAZY!!!

Rich posing with the heron. It seems since we have been together there have been herons everywhere...even where we got engaged.
It's fun to find them when we are out now!

We ended our night up at Harbor Lights in Tacoma and took in the view of the Sound from our table. There were tons of people out on the water and we even saw a boat pick up a crab pot! We walked along for a bit and took in the view from a bench. Fantastic!

The day was over...but we weren't quite home yet. We were trying to wait to see if Michael Phelps won his 8th gold when we got home....but heard the results over the radio on our drive home! Still, it was exciting to watch last night...but we both wanted to be surprised.

Wow! What a fun weekend...back to work in the office!