I took last Friday off of work to make another 4-day weekend. It was my sister’s last full day in town. Since she is in Chicago, she misses a lot of Rylee’s “firsts”, so I decided to see if she wanted to be a part of Ry’s first trip to the Oregon Coast Aquarium. My dad and brother came over too and my other sister came down from Portland.

I started the day out getting up earlier than I would on a normal work day to make sandwhiches and what not. We were out the door about 7 AM. We stopped in Florence to have breakfast with some cousins from Andy’s sid eof the family then headed up the coast to Newport. Ry slept almost the whole way to the aquarium and was super excited to see her Aunties and Uncle and Grandad waiting for her! She enjoyed looking at the fish and the crabs and the jellyfish and the sharks. The sea lions were probably her favorite.

After the aquarium, we headed to Agate beach for some lunch and Ry’s first “dip of the toes” in the Pacific.

After lunch we headed down to the water. Ry enjoyed “writing” everyone’s names in the sand. She literally went down the list of family…Mommy, Daddy, Dante, Auntie, Auntie, Uncle, Grandad…it was too cute.

After that, she headed down to the water. The water was of course Oregon-Coast-Freezing. I went and dipped my toes then quickly turned back around. The cold didn’t even seem to phase Andy or Ry. She was a really good sport about it…until her feet got dirty.

Of course, we couldn’t leave the beach without getting some family shots…

It ended up “raining” on us as we were headed back to our cars. It wasn’t really rain, it was more like a really, really wet drizzle. There was water literally dripping off of my face by the time we got back to the car. After this, she slept nearly the enter 2 1/2 hour drive home…oh and I might have too.