10th Annual Family Beach Trip: Seaside

Another summer and another amazing trip to the beach with the Johnsons. We were back at Seaside and enjoyed many of its staple activities: beach walks, digging in the sand, throwing/kicking a ball around, trips into town for ice cream and other distractions, and general "cousinland" antics. 

This year we added a couple of new activities. One day we picked up the Huey boys who were also in Seaside and drove to Ft. Stevens. We rode our bikes to some of the places Sarah and I use to visit when we camped at Ft. Stevens with our family as kids: Battery Russell, Peter Iredale Shipwreck, and Coffenbury Lake. The trails seemed much shorter than I remembered them as a kid. Ha! Another day we decided to try out a hike...a very muddy hike. We all had a fun time in the end, but all our shoes needed a spin in the washing machine when we got home.

And here are a few photos...

P.S. 9th Annual Family Beach Trip