Thursday to the Aquarium

Bev and Bea got packed up and left us about 10 am for the long drive back to Sacramento. We kept in touch throughout the day with texting. The remaining 4 went to Newport to the Oregon Coast Aquarium. Weather continued to be coolish with a bit of breeze. There were lots of people there, but apparently not as many as there were on Tuesday!

Seahorses were the first critters we saw and we had a great time watching and photographing them. This part of the aquarium is really geared for kids with lots of hand's on activities. We saw an interesting display with sea plumes and sand dollars, with a time-lapse showing how sand dollars move! (should have taken a video of the video!) There was a great touching tank for kids (and adults!), too. Outside were sea otters, seals, sea lions and an octopus. The large fish display is well done with a walk through people tube and 3 or 4 sections, each depicting a different part of the ocean.

We tried to go to Local Ocean, but even at 2 pm the place was packed, as was everything else along the bay. We headed back up into Newport proper where we found a funky little local restaurant. It was crowded which we took as a good sign. It only had about 9 tables and a few counter seats. Very extensive menu with breakfast served all day. We each had something different and it was all pretty good! Unfortunately I found Peggy's leftovers in the Rav on Friday morning.

We had purchased steaks again on Wednesday to have on Thursday but since Bea and Bev left we had Larry and Manuel over for dinner that night to help eat them. Barb and Peggy managed to cook the steaks and Deborah again made an out-of-this-world dessert with some of the cherries purchased earlier in the week and the chocolate decadance from Harry and David's. I think Larry's expression says it all!

Pix coming later