Friday (the 13th!) was our 16th Anniversary. We took the day off and headed for the ocean, to a town called Ocean Shores. I hadn't been there since 1986 when I was a junior in high school and we went there on band tour (the only time I had been there until now).
Climbing the jetty rocks to look across the bay at Westport
On our way stopped at a nearby oceanfront town called Seabrook.
It's a cute little town with all these Cape Cod-style vacation homes and just a few cute shops, restaurants and bars. We walked around for a bit, got an ice cream cone and then headed down to Ocean Shores.
Once settled in our room we went to the pool and hot tub, then out to dinner at Bennett's Fish Shack where we enjoyed awesome fish and chips. On Saturday we had breakfast in our room and then went for a walk on the beach. The weather on the Washington coast this time of year is notoriously cold and wet, but we lucked out with a few sun breaks and not too much rain or wind. Later, we browsed some of the shops, had lunch, and drove down to the jetty where we walked the beach some more and climbed on the rocks to catch a glimpse of the town of Westport across the bay. Later, we had dinner at an Irish pub and then went to the pool and hot tub again.
We woke up to heavy rain on Sunday, but we were leaving anyway. We went out for breakfast then hit the road. We stopped at Paul's mom's house on our way so he could mow her lawn (his dad died about 9 months ago so he goes down there every so often to help out with stuff). We had lunch there and then made one last stop at our friend's place to pick up Kona.
Oh, I forgot to mention that the girls came with us, so it wasn't exactly a romantic anniversary trip, but I wanted them to see Ocean Shores and just have some fun family time. Like usual I wasn't very good about taking pictures, plus they wouldn't let me, but I got a few
View from hotel. You can barely see the beach and water past the brush in the photo but in real life you could.
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