dinolove: Birthday Weekend!

This year for my birthday, Erin, Trev, Chris and I went on a weekend trip to Seaside, Or. We left really late on friday night because Chris didn't get off work until 10pm. At around 1:30 AM Trevor was pulled over for speeding in the middle of nowhere Oregon. Luckily she let us off with a warning, but in reality we don't think Trev was speeding, we think she was just bored and ours was the first car to come through there in hours. We got to the beach at around 2:30 and stayed up talking until 4!

The next morning Erin woke up to me, like a kid on christmas, ready to go! After all it was the most amazing day, at one point the thermometer reached 70 degrees! We went to Bagel by the Sea for breakfast, did some shopping, and walked along the beach. When we returned the boys were just getting up and heading out with the canoe to drop the crab pot. More than enough time had gone by to drop the crab pot and the boys still weren't back. We started to wonder what was taking them so long, so we hopped on the bikes and rode down to the bridge where we could see them standing on a bank, quite a ways down the river. While Trev and Chris were taking a leisurely stroll down the river, they had been stopped by a police officer. Apparently it is illegal to canoe without a life jacket, even when you can stand up in the completely still water that you are canoeing in. Once again we had a run in with a bored police officer, but this time we weren't as lucky. Even after showing Officer Oconnor Chris's military ID, he gave Trev a ticket. We walked the canoe back to the house and headed off to Cannon Beach.

Cannon Beach was amazing, we walked out to haystack rock and Erin and I waded around in the tide pools. We found a lot of hermit crabs that looked like tarantulas with shells. I didn't really like them. On our way back to Seaside, Erin and I got our noses pierced. I almost chickened out as always :) We went to Dundee's for dinner (best chicken strips ever!), then we had a fire on the beach. After putting out the fire, we went to Girtles for some Karaoke! We never did decide on a song and we were all getting tired, so we went home, made funfetti cupcakes, and went to bed.

On the ride home we didn't have any run ins with the law. Around factoria, Erin pulled off an exit and was going a way that I had never gone. I didn't think it was possible for her way to be faster, but I wasn't in any hurry and didn't complain. I was starting to get very confused as to where we were going, but I still played along until we pulled into the humane society parking lot. My eyes lit up with excitement and I immediately turned to Trev. WHAT! I have been wanting a cat for so long, but Trev had been resisting. Turns out that Erin and Trev had been planning to surprise me with this on my birthday for a while. They even had a cat carrier in the trunk, covered by a black plastic bag. sneaky sneaky! We went into the building, but were unsuccessful in picking out a kitty. The one that I loved, was sick :( Don't worry I'm going to keep looking!

It was an amazing birthday weekend. I have the best friends and fiance!