Oregon Coast
The coast is awesome – just so beautiful. I made a good breakfast for everyone and then we headed off to Fred Myer to get a new air mattress for me. They exchanged my leaky one for a new one so that worked out great !! Got to love them for that. We went to Seaside and went on the bumper cars and Haley went on a hand powered little train. Lots of shops at seaside which Linda checked out. Both Cannon Beach and Seaside are just loaded with gifts shops. The kids and I love the massive beaches and making sand castles. The water is a bit too chilly to swim in but fun to play up until your waist.

Drive Home
The drive home was brutal. What usually takes 7 hours took us about 10 hours to get home. A motorcycle accident closed the I-5 in Olympia WA for 4 hours. The guy was taking off on the police and was doing over 100MPH when he clipped a car and killed himself. There was nothing left of the bike – just small pieces scattered all over the highway. We hit another accident area and then the border. We took the truck crossing border which was lined up on the I-5. The wait was about 2 hours. About 20 buses for the Van Warped Tour were in line taking up a lot of space. After about 30 minutes I got impatient and did some tricks and we went down the shoulder, got gas, bathroom stop, duty free and was across in just over an hour. So I saved an hour. The kids were not happy campers. I did stop for a slurpee as soon as we crossed the border. I missed them for 5 days.