A Fairly Fabulous Day

 My Grandma and Grandpa Fair live on the Coast in Rockaway, OR.  It's 10 minutes from the Tillamook Cheese Factory, which is very dangerous, we ate ice cream everyday we were there.  Their home has the best view ever!  The picture above is from their back yard.  It overlooks some tide pools  in the channel right before you cross the bar into the Pacific Ocean. So they basically live right on the ocean.  My grandpa loves fishing.  He has a big boat that he takes out to catch Tuna, Salmon, crab and lots of other things.  That's the reason they live there.  They were in the process of re-roofing their house, so we stayed close to town and just had fun visiting with them and toodling around the different beach towns. This was a beach by Pacific City, there was a great little restaurant we ate at called The Pelican Brewery. It was right on the water.  However, beaches here are cold!  We only waded, no swimming for us. ...

 I've been a little MIA from the blog for the past month.  We've been busy traveling, finishing up summer semester and finals, and working a lot!  It's nice to finally have a weekend to just relax.  We went and saw the Dark Knight Rising last night and then hit up a garage sale and the Farmer's Market this morning.  I feel like I finally have juice to clean the house and do a little housekeeping on the blog. We went to the Northwest Coast a few weeks ago to visit family.  So, I'm going to divide each place into it's own post. We began in Portland, OR and Vancouver, WA.  My Grandparents live there and so does my Uncle and Aunt.  My other Aunt, Nancy, came up with her family, and my dad flew up as well.  It was a fun little reunion.  While there we went bowling with all the cousins.  This is Chloe holding a bowling ball almost as big as she is!  She has the most beautiful long hair.  Everyday I would try to talk her...