Visitors!!!

Our good friend Eric Young  came to visit us this weekend! Yay!!! So we took him to the beach on Saturday (after feeding him all kinds of yummy foods)

 It was a great day for beach combing, as it was colder and windier than the last time we were out at the beach. (much much windier)

 Roxy got her run down the coast and the girls got their bucket full of rocks and shells! (even a half eaten crab)

 Uncle Eric got to be the feather keeper :o)

 Marian's crab

 Reed's mussle

 Dani's feather

 So we thought we would try Newport, after Lincoln City was cooler and windier than we wanted

However it closes early on Saturday and it was even more windy up there,so  we didn't stay too long. We decided to take a trip to the Newport aquarium!!! It was a blast!!! (as you can tell, by the amount of pics I took)

 Kid sub

 Look at the awe on her face!

 Reed was so excited!!!

 Dani was a bit sleepy at first

 Reed had so much fun on this boat, he had a hard time wiping the smile off his face (but somehow managed to right when I took the pictures!)

 The kids got to go fishing!!!

 Really, Reed loved it!!!!

 He was fascinated by the cleaner shrimp

These little crabs will grow to be this big!!!

 Proof Eric was there

 These Jellies were awesome!!!

 More shrimp, and a touching tidal pool!

 The aviary, with the puffins and auks

 The octopus

 Otters

 More tidal pool feeling

 The shark tunnel!!!

Look at the smiling bat ray!

 Cool Sharks!

 Big Rock fish

My hair is crazy thanks to the wind and salty sea spray from the beach time

 See through floor!

 an eel!

 Figuring out what fish are in there!

 Sturgeon

Reed got a little too close to the Mega shark and it ate him!

So we had to rescue him, and it ate us too!

We all love turtles :o) don't we uncle Eric :o)

Then it was out to Georgies and the beach front there for a few minutes, as the wind had still not let up and we ended up being sand blasted.

Love how this one turned out, and it was a candid shot too! Thanks Eric!

Roxy loves playing on the beach!

as do the kids!!!

Sand dunes!

Out to eat at the famous Toast and Pho!!!