Visiting Oregon

After Washington and Victoria, we headed out to the Oregon Coast with the Edvalsons.  We enjoyed some meals out.

The Tillamook Cheese Factory, of course.  

Spent some sunny days playing like crazy at the beach.

Tom even pulled out the old skim board for a bit.  

And we all took a little hike to see a waterfall.  

July 4th is the annual Trusty Family Reunion in Oceanside.  This year, with the matching family t-shirts Tom and I screenprinted, the Trusty Family made quite a showing at the little Oceanside 4th of July Parade.  The best comments from the crowd: "What's a Trusty?"  And "I don't know what a Trusty is... but it's lookin' Good!"  

It helped that a good part of the Oceanside parade spectators were also wearing the same shirts.

In the afternoon, the official reunion began.  The kids, as always, were in charge of the flags for the songs and Pledge.  I think they were mostly confused about why it was taking so long to eat that array of food in front of them.  

Later that evening, we met some cousins on the beach for hot dogs, S'mores, and glow sticks (way less scary than sparklers, which we also did, but didn't take pictures of).  

We also visited the Cape Mears lighthouse.  Celia insisted on waiting in the long line to get to the top (it was pretty backed up after a proposal apparently arranged to have the whole place to themselves).  

We also pulled out the photo studio lighting on the glorious blue wall in the beach house and had a bit of success. 

And took a million pictures in the trees by the Octopus tree and ended up (after a bit of editing) with a real winner.