The trip last week! Part 1!
Wow where do I start off??
Well Jon said - Let's just get out of the house now... It was about hmm 7:30pm on Monday night (14th). We wanted to head down towards
Ocean Shores and see where we could stay etc.
So we head off after corraling all the stuff in the big ass suitcase. We head down to Wal-Mart to pick up supplies for camping and get an
oil change. Pick up random things.. tarp, air matress, etc... I swear tho the Renton Wal-Mart is REALLY ghetto... The things I saw and
the idiot people.. Feh. Maybe Redmond is just spoiling me. =/
We get out of the hole known as Renton and head for my dad's to borrow the cooler. Talk with dad for awhile before we leave... He gives
me a quest! "I used to have an old penny from one of those $.51 machines, could you bring me one of those back from Ocean Shores." I'm
like - sure! Yay a quest!!!! A target..
Before we actually went to my dad's I called up Mike since he lives in Olympia and asked if he wanted to hang out for a little bit while
we were down there.. He says he's not sure because of how late it was getting and how long it woulda taken to get down there.
Needless to say we didn't leave dad's place until like 10ish sometime. So no meetup with Mike. We do however stop off in Olympia anyway
to pick up something to eat as we're fannished! I must say that the Albertsons we got food at had some yummy sandwiches.. I had roast
beef and I think Jon had ham. I elected NOT to go with the turkey this time as the effects of the turkey would of been undesirable! We
also had salad.. I had chicken and he had macaroni pasta. Both delicious!!
Then we head off on 101 to the coast! It was dark out but I was still oogling over all the sites of just TREES!!! @_@;;; Off in the
distance I saw four lights (THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS!) on top of something huge.. I then realized it might be one of those reactors and told
Jon that we need to get out of the area quickly!!! I hate those things... They scare me.. nuclear stuff and all.. >.>
Now we're really moving (at a blazing speed of 62!!!) and I could tell that Bandon was really coming out after the - "Yeah I want to pay
an obscene amount and put my RV out in the middle of fucking no where!" After a storage place we saw on the highway... It was great even
if it was for a brief time he peeked out. ^_^
Gas was SOOOOOOOOOO much cheaper down there too!!! For the cheap stuff at Chevron it was about $2.09
So we get through Aberdeen with all it's turns and windy roads to MORE trees as we get closer and closer to Ocean Shores...
We get into OS around 1AM. Nothing is open. Except a handleful of hotels.. We check the Best Western for their rates.. Too high.
Around $80.00 I think for the night. That's a little much for our tiny budget. So we go next door and see it looks closed etc.
Then we get the crazy idea to head out to Ocean City to check if anything is cheaper around there. WEW!!! It was a good move I thought!
There was some twisty whindy roads up that way!!! Jon can handle twisty roads real well and later in that week I would discover why. Stop at a few places and find they were closed of course... Motels that are in business at night shouldn't CLOSE at night!!! We end up at Ocean City and it was kinda drab and had one Motel. Which of course was CLOSED. So we head out after looking at an amusing sign (one of those poles that had signs going everywhere).
We head back to Ocean Shores and decide to stop off at the Resort Casino place.. O but wait! Before we did that.. we went out on this drive that when we went out on was the BEACH!!! It was a beach roadway!!!! @_@;; I was scared to death because it was... middle of the night and dark as hell so I wanted him to leave ASAP... >.> Anyway we get to the Resort and ask how much they want.. same price as the Best Western.. $80. Too much for our budget still. Jon tells the lady what we have been up to and what we tried.. Including going to the campground to find it closed. She then tells us some helpful info. Basically that they don't actually chain the gate in the campground and you can sneak in. That was good news for us as we left in a hurry and zipped into the campground.
We found a spot and put a tent up but were too exhausted to put down the airmatress so we ended up sleeping on an incline on the ground with our sleeping bags.. I awoke the next morning to a terrible terrible back-ache, but I wasn't about to let that stop us from having a good time!
Jon went to pay and I went to potty and told the Ranger about what we did. He chewed us out as I expected, but it's better for him to know the truth than to not as he could just boot us out of there if he found out later.
Anyway the people in the actual booth told us that there were better campspots near the beach. We moved and found this GREAT place next to the beach trail. Had some trees to climb and was just generally a good spot I felt. Pitched the tent and headed to town for a kite and a bucket! Went to one of these stores and got a bucket and a kite... a DRAGON KITE!!! WEWT!!!
Then I believe we headed back (My memory sucks) and went out to the beach to make me a sandcastle! Jon was going to fly the kite.. but the high winds kinda broke it =/ So he ended up helping me make my castle. ^_^ We dug and made walls and towers and stuff... and a hole in the middle of the castle so I could be maybe the same size as it etc. Got pictures!
We headed back and did some other things in town. Then came back to the campground with firewood from... an interesting individual we'll just put it that way. We throw it on and it's wet. -_-;;; Wasn't seasoned. Grrreat.. smokey fire. So we buy some from the park and it's kinda wet... I started chopping it with the axe we bought to salvage good pieces and such.
Eventually the fire is good enough to roast our hotdogs! Mmm that was GREAT!! I hate hotdogs too!! XD Yummed those up as well as some marshmellows then some smores. Later on we hear some racket from the other camp.
I first saw a bunny in the bushes before I heard the racket. Then it disapeered... Then I saw something moving and I was like - Uhhhh Jon what IS that!!! He's like - what is what?? I point and he shines the light. It was a racoon. I remember that racoons are mean lil devils but didn't care. I made a clicking noise and the coon started coming towards us. Then Jon proceeds to tell me scare info (AGAIN) that they have rabbies and stuff like that so you don't want it near you. So he then moves some wood and motions towards it in a hostile mannor and it leaves real quick. For the rest of the night I was scared to death (even in the tent) because of how afraid he made me of it. Thanks =/
So yeah that was the exciting parts of the actual camping..
That was Tuesday night too...
Wednesday we decide to head out of town towards OR. Before we do we go into town to do a lil window shopping and such. Before we really do that tho I had us rent some 3 wheel bikes. Not motorized.. the ones you use your legs on. They were TONS of fun to ride around with!!! We check out shops with the 3 wheelers and get them back etc.. eat and then head out of town.
Down the 101!!! Was SOOOOOOOOOOO beautiful!!!!!!!!! OMG!!!! Trees and views... :: oogles :: I love that road!
We get down to close to Astoria and cross the bridge into Astoria... The bridge was MASSIVE @_@;;; I mean it was flat then it went UP and wow... so beautiful though.
Jon decides to try to get me up to the Astoria Column.. Well we got thoroughly denied.. also on the way up we saw a film crew of sorts... =/
So we decide to go eat at KFC as we're starving. Jon asks why the things were closed and they tell him that they are filming "Ring 2" and "Goonies 2" Oy... Just our luck. We come into town the time they decide to film shit. BAH!!!
It had been decided we'd stay in town and did that we did. We went to Fred Meyers so I could search for Gundams.. Though I believe before that Jon was going to show me that Battery that I can't remember the name of.. something like Battery Russell.. the only one that was fired on in the continental US. BUT! It was... Yep CLOSED because of the fuckers filming Ring 2. FUCK YOU ALL!!! ;p
Anyway we go somewhere else.. he shows me this ship stuck in the sand.. The Peter Iredale. It was really cool because you could climb up on it and so on... We did that for awhile and came back then went to Freddies... Then we wandered around Astoria for awhile. It was getting near sunset and so Jon took me to this place on the river... some viewing station.
I was delighted by the view of the sunset. Even if the bridge was there it was one of the most beautiful sites I have ever seen. And I got to enjoy it with the man I love. How much perfect can you get?
So we eat at this place called Pig N Pancake. It was good food I thought, even if the people were a bit stuffy and rude. Jon didn't like his meal at all it appeared. =/
We left and decided to camp outside the Red Lion as we couldn't get a room yet (Jon's paycheck gets deposited so we have to wait for it to be deposited). Eventually after lots of game playing on our phones he checks and it's there. He heads into the Red Lion only to be rebuffed as the fucking film crew took up everything. EVERY HOTEL in Astoria was full!!!! FUCKERS!!! I HATE YOU!!!!
We head back to Westerton or whatever the fuck the town is and stay at the Shilo Inn. Great room with sauna, steam room, pool and weight room. All open 24-7!!! So we jump in the spa for awhile.. Then head into the steam room as I had never been in one. Wow my sinuses felt GREAT after that! THen the sauna but it was cold and I didn't want to wait around.
That was it for those days!! I'll be posting more in a bit about part 2!!!
-Squeek!eth of first part of vacation
Well Jon said - Let's just get out of the house now... It was about hmm 7:30pm on Monday night (14th). We wanted to head down towards
Ocean Shores and see where we could stay etc.
So we head off after corraling all the stuff in the big ass suitcase. We head down to Wal-Mart to pick up supplies for camping and get an
oil change. Pick up random things.. tarp, air matress, etc... I swear tho the Renton Wal-Mart is REALLY ghetto... The things I saw and
the idiot people.. Feh. Maybe Redmond is just spoiling me. =/
We get out of the hole known as Renton and head for my dad's to borrow the cooler. Talk with dad for awhile before we leave... He gives
me a quest! "I used to have an old penny from one of those $.51 machines, could you bring me one of those back from Ocean Shores." I'm
like - sure! Yay a quest!!!! A target..
Before we actually went to my dad's I called up Mike since he lives in Olympia and asked if he wanted to hang out for a little bit while
we were down there.. He says he's not sure because of how late it was getting and how long it woulda taken to get down there.
Needless to say we didn't leave dad's place until like 10ish sometime. So no meetup with Mike. We do however stop off in Olympia anyway
to pick up something to eat as we're fannished! I must say that the Albertsons we got food at had some yummy sandwiches.. I had roast
beef and I think Jon had ham. I elected NOT to go with the turkey this time as the effects of the turkey would of been undesirable! We
also had salad.. I had chicken and he had macaroni pasta. Both delicious!!
Then we head off on 101 to the coast! It was dark out but I was still oogling over all the sites of just TREES!!! @_@;;; Off in the
distance I saw four lights (THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS!) on top of something huge.. I then realized it might be one of those reactors and told
Jon that we need to get out of the area quickly!!! I hate those things... They scare me.. nuclear stuff and all.. >.>
Now we're really moving (at a blazing speed of 62!!!) and I could tell that Bandon was really coming out after the - "Yeah I want to pay
an obscene amount and put my RV out in the middle of fucking no where!" After a storage place we saw on the highway... It was great even
if it was for a brief time he peeked out. ^_^
Gas was SOOOOOOOOOO much cheaper down there too!!! For the cheap stuff at Chevron it was about $2.09
So we get through Aberdeen with all it's turns and windy roads to MORE trees as we get closer and closer to Ocean Shores...
We get into OS around 1AM. Nothing is open. Except a handleful of hotels.. We check the Best Western for their rates.. Too high.
Around $80.00 I think for the night. That's a little much for our tiny budget. So we go next door and see it looks closed etc.
Then we get the crazy idea to head out to Ocean City to check if anything is cheaper around there. WEW!!! It was a good move I thought!
There was some twisty whindy roads up that way!!! Jon can handle twisty roads real well and later in that week I would discover why. Stop at a few places and find they were closed of course... Motels that are in business at night shouldn't CLOSE at night!!! We end up at Ocean City and it was kinda drab and had one Motel. Which of course was CLOSED. So we head out after looking at an amusing sign (one of those poles that had signs going everywhere).
We head back to Ocean Shores and decide to stop off at the Resort Casino place.. O but wait! Before we did that.. we went out on this drive that when we went out on was the BEACH!!! It was a beach roadway!!!! @_@;; I was scared to death because it was... middle of the night and dark as hell so I wanted him to leave ASAP... >.> Anyway we get to the Resort and ask how much they want.. same price as the Best Western.. $80. Too much for our budget still. Jon tells the lady what we have been up to and what we tried.. Including going to the campground to find it closed. She then tells us some helpful info. Basically that they don't actually chain the gate in the campground and you can sneak in. That was good news for us as we left in a hurry and zipped into the campground.
We found a spot and put a tent up but were too exhausted to put down the airmatress so we ended up sleeping on an incline on the ground with our sleeping bags.. I awoke the next morning to a terrible terrible back-ache, but I wasn't about to let that stop us from having a good time!
Jon went to pay and I went to potty and told the Ranger about what we did. He chewed us out as I expected, but it's better for him to know the truth than to not as he could just boot us out of there if he found out later.
Anyway the people in the actual booth told us that there were better campspots near the beach. We moved and found this GREAT place next to the beach trail. Had some trees to climb and was just generally a good spot I felt. Pitched the tent and headed to town for a kite and a bucket! Went to one of these stores and got a bucket and a kite... a DRAGON KITE!!! WEWT!!!
Then I believe we headed back (My memory sucks) and went out to the beach to make me a sandcastle! Jon was going to fly the kite.. but the high winds kinda broke it =/ So he ended up helping me make my castle. ^_^ We dug and made walls and towers and stuff... and a hole in the middle of the castle so I could be maybe the same size as it etc. Got pictures!
We headed back and did some other things in town. Then came back to the campground with firewood from... an interesting individual we'll just put it that way. We throw it on and it's wet. -_-;;; Wasn't seasoned. Grrreat.. smokey fire. So we buy some from the park and it's kinda wet... I started chopping it with the axe we bought to salvage good pieces and such.
Eventually the fire is good enough to roast our hotdogs! Mmm that was GREAT!! I hate hotdogs too!! XD Yummed those up as well as some marshmellows then some smores. Later on we hear some racket from the other camp.
I first saw a bunny in the bushes before I heard the racket. Then it disapeered... Then I saw something moving and I was like - Uhhhh Jon what IS that!!! He's like - what is what?? I point and he shines the light. It was a racoon. I remember that racoons are mean lil devils but didn't care. I made a clicking noise and the coon started coming towards us. Then Jon proceeds to tell me scare info (AGAIN) that they have rabbies and stuff like that so you don't want it near you. So he then moves some wood and motions towards it in a hostile mannor and it leaves real quick. For the rest of the night I was scared to death (even in the tent) because of how afraid he made me of it. Thanks =/
So yeah that was the exciting parts of the actual camping..
That was Tuesday night too...
Wednesday we decide to head out of town towards OR. Before we do we go into town to do a lil window shopping and such. Before we really do that tho I had us rent some 3 wheel bikes. Not motorized.. the ones you use your legs on. They were TONS of fun to ride around with!!! We check out shops with the 3 wheelers and get them back etc.. eat and then head out of town.
Down the 101!!! Was SOOOOOOOOOOO beautiful!!!!!!!!! OMG!!!! Trees and views... :: oogles :: I love that road!
We get down to close to Astoria and cross the bridge into Astoria... The bridge was MASSIVE @_@;;; I mean it was flat then it went UP and wow... so beautiful though.
Jon decides to try to get me up to the Astoria Column.. Well we got thoroughly denied.. also on the way up we saw a film crew of sorts... =/
So we decide to go eat at KFC as we're starving. Jon asks why the things were closed and they tell him that they are filming "Ring 2" and "Goonies 2" Oy... Just our luck. We come into town the time they decide to film shit. BAH!!!
It had been decided we'd stay in town and did that we did. We went to Fred Meyers so I could search for Gundams.. Though I believe before that Jon was going to show me that Battery that I can't remember the name of.. something like Battery Russell.. the only one that was fired on in the continental US. BUT! It was... Yep CLOSED because of the fuckers filming Ring 2. FUCK YOU ALL!!! ;p
Anyway we go somewhere else.. he shows me this ship stuck in the sand.. The Peter Iredale. It was really cool because you could climb up on it and so on... We did that for awhile and came back then went to Freddies... Then we wandered around Astoria for awhile. It was getting near sunset and so Jon took me to this place on the river... some viewing station.
I was delighted by the view of the sunset. Even if the bridge was there it was one of the most beautiful sites I have ever seen. And I got to enjoy it with the man I love. How much perfect can you get?
So we eat at this place called Pig N Pancake. It was good food I thought, even if the people were a bit stuffy and rude. Jon didn't like his meal at all it appeared. =/
We left and decided to camp outside the Red Lion as we couldn't get a room yet (Jon's paycheck gets deposited so we have to wait for it to be deposited). Eventually after lots of game playing on our phones he checks and it's there. He heads into the Red Lion only to be rebuffed as the fucking film crew took up everything. EVERY HOTEL in Astoria was full!!!! FUCKERS!!! I HATE YOU!!!!
We head back to Westerton or whatever the fuck the town is and stay at the Shilo Inn. Great room with sauna, steam room, pool and weight room. All open 24-7!!! So we jump in the spa for awhile.. Then head into the steam room as I had never been in one. Wow my sinuses felt GREAT after that! THen the sauna but it was cold and I didn't want to wait around.
That was it for those days!! I'll be posting more in a bit about part 2!!!
-Squeek!eth of first part of vacation