Don't you realize? The next time you see sky, it'll be over another town. The next time you take a test, it'll be in some other school. Our parents, they want the best of stuff for us. But right now, they got to do what's right for them. Because it's their time. Their time! Up there! Down here, it's our time. It's our time down here. That's all over the second we ride up Troy's bucket

  Our trip to Astoria was a fun one for us. Eva must not have been feeling well, or she was extremely angry that we didn't stay home and let her breastfeed to her hearts content (which would be for 18 hours straight) because she was very fussy most of the trip. It was a new kind of fussy as well. She would go from chill to a "I hate you all" kind of scream like it was an Olympic event and she was looking to set a world record. It made for an interesting day.
 We ate breakfast at Camp 18, an old logging camp turned into a restaurant. It was good food. We had an amazing cinnamon roll that was as big as a dinner plate.

Eva was in good spirits until we reached the beach. Then the scream-a-thon began and we didn't have anyone manning the phone lines to accept donations. Where were you Neil Patrick Harris?

This shipwreck is the Peter Iredale. It was four masted sail ship that ran aground on the Oregon coast during a storm in 1906. The ship was built partially from steel and partially from wood. The steel msections of the bow and the mast braces are still there sticking out of the sand.

Then we went to Astoria and walked along the docks and watched the ships and the sea lions.

And no trip to Astoria would be complete with going to see some landmarks from "The Goonies"

The Goondocks

The museum where the dad worked

The jail house where the Fratelli's staged their jailbreak

The sign on the path leading up to the goonies house.