Getting Away To Calm

Wow it has been since July 3rd when little Kia was adopted that I have posted to my blog! We have had to take a long break from fostering but I am still doing Adoption Coordinating for New Rattitude.

Due to some major family/personal stuff my husband and I have been dealing with over the last few months we decided we needed a quick mid week getaway to the OR coast. It was JUST what we needed. It was off season, mid week, and the weather was perfect, we needed to just relax, recharge our physical and emotional batteries, and not think or do too much.

We left Liza and Birdie with their personal petsitter who was soooo excited to have them for a few days. They got to sleep in bed with the family, which ever person they each chose. Liza always chooses the college daughter and Birdie always chooses the mom and dad's bed, thank goodness the dad is a good sport and the whole family just dotes on those two girls.

Skip, Jenny, and Tim came with us. Jenny is getting pretty senior but she still loves a good adventure. Skip is always such a good traveler and this being Tim's second vacation in his life and he did great!

As I mentioned, we really wanted to relax and not think or do anything, (well there were long walks on the beach or in town and eating, and there were coffee drinks in the morning and cocktails in the evening involved...but you know what I mean :), so part of the not doing was not even taking a ton of pictures. But I took a few so I could share with you our little getaway and after all it really was time for a blog post wasn't it?

Our first morning we decided to drive a little south to the town of Wheeler, we have discovered the Handy Creek Bakery for Eggs Benedict for breakfast, a splurge we like to eat on our vacation. Nehalem Bay can be seen from the bakery and after we ate we decided to get a closer look at this serene waterway.

We heard some folks in the bakery talking about crabbing, and we saw some boats out with crab pots they were tossing in.

Hi mom I thought I would photobomb your picture.

Skip checking out the water's edge, Liza would have loved this place too, we missed her.

I could have watched this waterway all day...

Little Jenny was cruising around too, she doesn't like to miss anything.

Before jumping back in the car to go to our next stop we did some nosework with Skip and Tim. They were so happy to be doing that as we hadn't been doing it with what is going on at home these days. Jenny got to search for treats and she liked that too!

We decided to head over to Nehalem Bay State Park to walk along the beach on the other side of the bay from where we were above.

As luck would have it, we were the only one's out on the beach! It looks like it would be freezing cold but it was nice, low 60's so not too bad at all.

Tim was much more comfortable on this trip than our first OR trip back in May. Last May he didn't always think he wanted to get out of the car, but this time around he was eager to jump out to see what we were going to do next. Such great progress!

Someone built a cool driftwood fort.

Look at Tim's body language, tail up and he is alert. He was having a blast out on the beach and driftwood.

Sweet Skip he is always up for anything. He is a great little travel partner.

The water on the left of this pic is the same water, Nehalem Bay, where the photos were taken from Wheeler, this area is on the other side of that bay.

Tim was really into sniffing something, I have no idea what it was :)

Tim strutting his stuff :)

Pretty boy, giving mom a great pose.

Yup we had a great few days with more of the same. We took everything really slow and that was exactly what we needed. I think we should do it again...