Monday, on our way to Seaside, we stopped at the Astoria Column. At first only Rielee and Papa were climbing it, but then Harper joined in, and when Papa showed up with little wooden airplanes to fly off of it, Ava was in, too.
Papa said they didn't hesitate at all coming out and looking around, no fear of heights in these girls. It was funny, Ava told me that Rielee asked Papa how he was doing on the way up, and Papa answered "painfully"- "ok". They all said their legs were sore afterwards.
Our first stop in Seaside was the Aquarium, Harper couldn't wait to touch a starfish, last year she was afraid to. They touched everything they could there, over and over. They also tried to feed the seals but the seals were so full they were barely interested.
After lunch, we had a flat tire so we had to hang out at Les Schwab for an hour. Fortunately they had cards there so we taught Ava and Harper how to play "31".
Finally, after we checked in to the hotel, they got to swim.
Later in the evening we walked uptown and they rode the carousel and went to the arcade. They spent the majority of their time at the Claw machine. With help from Rielee, Ava and Harper ended up with 2 stuffed animals each and Rielee won herself one. That meant they didn't play the other games much and had few tickets. Ava and Harper redeemed a total of 3 each, good for a tiny Tootsie Roll, which disappointed them greatly. Rielee did better with 40 some tickets but hardly enough to buy anything good. Hard lesson to learn, they had buyer's remorse later.
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