Happy New Year

On new years day Luka and I drove to Cannon Beach to stay in our friends new beach house for a night. It was such a great way to start off the New Year! The drive through the coastal mountain range is beautiful... full of amazing lookouts, huge pines and forests (although some of it has been clearcut for logging). Luka unfortunately fell asleep during both the drive there and back, and so he missed all the snow... US-26 W through the range only gets to about 1,700 ft elevation... but there several peaks around it. Our friends home has a view of the pacific... Cannon Beach is a really cute beach town... mostly inhabited by Portland weekenders. It was about 38 degrees on both days, but beatifully sunny- so if dressed right, the walks on the beach are great. Not a whole lot of shells or treasures... mostly just gigantic sea plants, and on the rocks large star fish and sea anenome.

There were 2 other boys there: Julian 6, and Adam 9. Luka had fun wrestling and jumping on pillows with them. The grown-ups enjoyed a puzzle, food, books, magazines, and basically just lounging! Pictures will be up in a couple of days.