Rockaway Beach and Manhattan Beach

I think, out of all the places we have lived, Oregon is my favorite.  One of the reasons I love it is the ability to drive to the coast whenever I feel like it.  I love being close to the ocean.  Maybe it has something to do with being a Pisces.  At any rate, we took a day trip to the beach today because it was supposed to be the hottest day of the year so far this summer.  Unfortunately we weren't the only ones with the great beach day idea because traffic heading to the coast was insane!  Oddly enough, we saw that a couple had parked their car on the frontage road and set up their lawn chairs to watch the traffic go by.  Really. Weird.  But at least we got to see awesome festival signs as we slowly traveled along highway 26.  Sadly, I didn't get a shot of the "Jews Harp Festival" sign.  It would've been sweet.   

We were initially going to head to Canon beach, because it's famous and we'd never been there before.  But because EVERYONE and their dog wanted to go to the beach that day, we opted for something less populated and settled on Rockaway Beach.  Rockaway is a cute little coastal town that made me happy. 

  

 This was the first time Haven actually enjoyed the beach.  He just crawled around and played with the sand toys.  He seemed to love every second of it. 

Jacob LOVES digging in the dirt/sand.  It's pretty much his favorite outdoor pastime.  

He tends to get sand from head to toe whenever we go to the beach.  It's fun for him, but doesn't make for a pretty diaper change. 

Mike and I got into a wrestling match over something silly and well, let's just say I won.  

A pit to throw naughty kids in!  

Jacob and Vessel climbing out of the pit.  

Haven's first time touching the ocean.  He wasn't too thrilled with the temperature of it.  

We also decided to check out Manhattan Beach.  It was seriously the weirdest beach I had ever seen.  It is completely covered in huge pieces of driftwood.