Thursday, March 29, 2007

Our trip to Newport, Oregon

On Wednesday we took a trip to the coast along with our friends/neighbors, the Land family. It was a beautiful blue sky day (and a chilly 52 degrees) and we had a great time.
Our first stop was the Rogue Brewery in Newport, Oregon for lunch. It is quite an interesting establishment. They have the brewery on the ground floor and you maneuver your way among the metal containers of beer to the back of the building where you head upstairs to a small restaurant.
Lunch for kids were served on a frisbee ~ much to the kids delight!

Behind the brewery is the "Port of Newport" where we took a walk along the pier and were able to watch people pull up their crab nets and collect their crabs!

The kids stopped for a photo with the bay in the background!


Our next stop was to the Oregon Coast Aquarium!!!



The favorite stop was the shark tank, that you could actually walk through as sharks swam above and below you. Here Tori is observing a leopard shark!
I was trying to capture the kids with a shark behind them, but as you can see the shark was swimming right behind Ryley's head!

This is a picture inside the jaws of an actual shark!




Our final stop was to Yaquina Beach. Let me just say it was quite an adventure to get down to the beach...the steep stairway that was supposed to lead us to the beach was blocked by a huge murky lake of sorts, so we had to get adventurous and create our own trail down the hill (I deemed it a mountain when I had to climb back up it). Pictured above, Tyler, Lydia Land, Ryley, Brandon, Sarah, Tori, Ryan, Logan Land, Peyton Land.




I shot this photo right before we left the beach for home. What looks like a bright light behind them was actually the sun setting on the ocean!






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