Tillamook Factory and Lincoln City

We started out this morning by packing up last minute items in the car. All set to go.
We dropped of my little teddy bear off at the boarding place. It was so sad. I felt like a mom leaving her child at daycare for the first time. He'll at a good place and be fine.
We were on the road again, meeting up with the Garcias and heading down I-5. I am so glad that I packed so many good health foods.
I packed boiled eggs, grape tomatoes, apples, baby bel cheese, vegan muffins, and a huge thing of water among other things.
I kept myself occupied by ready "Alice in Wonderland"  on my tablet.

Did you know that Tillamook not only has an amazing cheese, but they have a gorgeous state park that goes on for miles. Great rivers and huge trees. Well we just drove through there, but most certainly want to go hiking. We saw a few fisherman. It looks nice.
We stopped by Tillamook Cheese factory and bought a few local photographs for a wall at home. We then proceeded to eat amazing ice cream. I had "cake batter" and my husband had "strawberry" (both on waffle cones I might add).
Then we drove (about an hour) to Lincoln City, OR.

By the time we arrived, it was an hour before sunset . We drove around to find the perfect place to watch the sunset. We decided on "D" river state park. It was beautiful! Clear open skies, rippled lightly with colored clouds. I walked down to the beach and I couldn't help myself...I just started running. I ran until my shoes hit the wet sand. I grabbed my husband and just gave him a big hug. I looked up and kissed him, then as I laid my head on his chest we watched the sun as it was setting. Then the cold kicked in and he went to get some thing warmer on. I saw the Garcias pull up and so we took s few shots of the beach with them and head back to the car.
It was dinner time and we had the perfect place picked out. J's fish and chips. They were so good, they ran out of chowder and almost ran out of fish, so they closed right after the couple who came in as we ordered.
It was amazing!
Aaron and I both had fish tacos with curly fries. Seriously, I always thought that Anthonys had the best fish tacos, but apparently I was wrong. These were the best.
And the Garcias ate the family pack and it was soon time to head down to Eureka. to sleep the busy day away