The Bryans Do Oregon 2017

It's about time I catch up a bit :)

End of June...
We picked up and headed out of town just shortly after Abby got back from girl's camp.

She was exhausted and a bit ornery (sorry Abs but 'tis true).

The first 30-45 minutes on the road she told us all about her adventures and then promptly fell asleep...after insisting that she is never able to sleep in the car :)

Ben also zonked as we drove north.

He's still getting used to a booster seat instead of a car seat.

We drove all day long and the kids were champs!

We stopped in Pendleton Oregon for the night and the next morning drove into the Columbia River Gorge...

Bonneville Fish Hatchery

Splashing in the water with cousins...

Ben checked out the funny metal bird...

When we walked under the bridge to get to Multnoma Falls a train passed right overhead.  It was incredibly loud but we thought Ben would be excited to see a real live train.  We couldn't get him to look at it but Andy sure enjoyed it :)

I took the older kids up to the falls while Andy stayed down with Ben.

It was so packed up on the bridge...

...but we finally got a turn to take pictures in front of the falls.

We came down to find Ben asleep in Andy's arms.

Since we had just been there two summers earlier we didn't feel like we had to spend too much time being tourists.

We had more driving to do so we hopped back on the road and arrived at the coast early evening.

This was our cute little house (Breeze on Inn) for a few days.

We stayed at Bella Beach just north of Depoe Bay.

It was such a quaint little neighborhood.

The view from the balcony off of Abby's room.

Grandma Bryan thought of everything and brought trains for Ben to line up and keep him happy.

That evening while Andy went into Lincoln City to pick up some dinner, and Ben lined up his trains, the other kids played some games and I cuddled up with a book.

It felt good to be out of the car and be able to relax.