Best of the Beach

We surveyed 7 family members about their trip to the Oregon Coast. The top 15 answers are on the board. Here is the question.

What is your favorite thing to do when staying on the Oregon Coast?

1.Watching the Game Show Network (especially Family Feud and Lingo) whenever we are inside and Spongebob Squarepants isn't on.

2. Digging a huge hole in the sand every day for a week.

3. Finding shells, including all the pieces to a crab that I brought in the house and made the place smell like fish until we figured out the crab hadn't been dead too long.

4.Driving Otter Crest Loop and spotting Pearl ( a whale) and her friends spouting and playing .

5. Visiting the Aquarium and the Marine Science Center and getting to touch starfish, small sharks, bat rays, anemonies, ans sea urchins. And getting to see sea horses and jellies, too.

6.Climbing to the top of the Yaquina Head Lighthouse.

7.Playing board games (especially Skipbo and Yahtzee) the day it stormed and the power was out.

8.Learning world culture from the family from France that wore speedos and swam for over a half hour deep in the cold Ocean waters.

9. The spa ;)

10. Spending an hour putting together a kite that was exciting to get up and after 3 minutes each, no one wanted to hold anymore.

11. Eating fish and chips and coconut prawns and clam chowder at Mo's Original on the bayfront in Newport. The kids meals came on a frisbee with a rubber shark for the bathtub. the front of the restaurant had a working garage door from where a woman accidentally drove her car right through the wall into the restaurant. instead of fixing the wall they put in the garage door with opener and had a mural painted of the woman sitting in fright behind the wheel of her car.

12. Getting Fifth Avenue Candy bars from Dad for going in the water above our waists.

13. Celebrating Zoey's 7th birthday. Having her wake up to being caged in her lower bunk with pink crepe paper streamers. Having a cool beach themed cake made by Mom.

14. Doing a 1000 piece puzzle in a day.

15. Just relaxing. Sleeping in. Eating lots of fabulous food that is soo bad for you. Dessert every night. Oreos, ice cream, and peanut m&m's every day. Wandering down to the beach for a few hours at a time twice every day. Coming home to a house with a jetted soaker tub and the game show network. Just being a family and loving every minute of it.