We started our short little vaction early Thursday morning of spring break with a little bump in our long road. My mom had rented a car for us to take to Eugene and the coast so we got up early and drove to Caldwell to get it. When we arrived the rental guy told us that he didn't have a car for us....my mom was not a happy camper. He told us that nobody returned the 3 cars that were supposed to have been returned, but that he did have a little compact car for us if we wanted it. Now if you could have seen the back of the van you would have laughed like the rest of us did. There was no way we would fit everything into a little car....so after my mom had her say we got back into the van and headed out. We stopped in Sisters, Oregon for a little walk because we had been in the car for so long and stumbled across a $3 store...heaven for my mom and I. I bought a shirt and a little jacket and my mom bought herself a jacket and my sister a jacket (she was sure Jody would love it). We continued on and finally found our hotel in Eugene...after many wrong turns and missed exits, it was time to get out of our car. The U of O Stadium could be seen from our hotel and we decided that a walk would do us some good and we went on an adventure to the stadium.
We started in Eugene because Jody had games versus Northwest Christian University. We actually had really pleasant weather for the games and they ended up winning both games. Jody pitched really well and had 15 Strike outs. Almost beating her big sister's record (but not quite).
After the games we continued our journey west, with Jody. We drove for what seemed like hours and came to our destination in Florence. It was too dark to see the ocean so we went to check into our hotel...HOLY GHETTO! After being completely disappointed, we figured food would cheer us up....especially Mo's, and we were right. The next day we checked out and headed north to Newport and into Lincoln City....hitting every possible antique/junk store we possible could. Before we got trapped indoors by the rain and wind, we made it to Strawberry Hill where we saw starfish and sea anemones.
We shopped our socks off at all of the cute little shops in Old Newport. We stopped to look at some sea lions playing on the docks, but that only lasted about 10 seconds because of the cold wind. Pretty much we stayed inside.
Our journey home took FOREVER. I tried to sleep most of the way. We ran into a blizzard coming into sisters but made it out only sliding a couple of times. I was really glad to get out of the car when we arrived home. It was nice to get out of Idaho for awhile with the family and hard to go back to work for my last two weeks. ONLY 6 DAYS LEFT of teaching!
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