Jennica and I took a road trip in the Ford Focus down to Seaside, Or. We had an amazing time. Some highlights: leaving at 4 am from Langley, getting there around lunchtime on the Sat and proceeding to rent bikes for the day and biked the boardwalk and around town. Next we played some guitar in the beautiful backyard of our Hostel overlooking the river. Next, we rented a double-kayak and went downt the river where it meets the ocean- so peacefull....... Later we made a nice supper, met some nice people from our hostel. One guy named Eric works at the hostel- he had long blond hair, walked around barefoot, and we think he was either high or completely washed out from too many drugs. One funny thing he said: we invited him to come to karyoke with us one night to which he replied "How can I sing right now? I'm not even in my body..." okay then. The other fun people we met was two guys from Boulder, Colorado who we figured by day 2 were gay. Some of the nicest guys I've ever met- so many good conversations at mealtimes and around the hostel. We'll miss those two...Okay- so sat night Jen and I had spent some time on the beach- w'd just written a song- and we were walking back when we saw a houseparty going on in one of the beach/vacation houses. Well, Jennica made a comment like "looks like quite the party.." and they saw we had a guitar- and they invited us in to perform in their talent show that was happening! So many drunk happy people- tons of energy. We proceeded to play the song we just wrote- some girls there thought we were "Teigen and Sara" a band- only because they thought we were pretty good and Teigen rhymes with Keegan.....Anyways- an interesting talent was this one guy performing a mattress swim/race- complete with the special somersault turns and everything. Well we agreed to meet up with these amazing people the4 next night for Karyoke at the local bar. These were all people in their mid-late twenties from across the US- hard to imagine them in a monday to friday job;)
So, we did do some karyoke- did some dixie chicks and some Good Charlotte and Aretha Franklyn "Respect" -I had the dance floor to myself for this one song and i broke out in my Napoleon Dynamite/fat-boy slim praise you dance moves. It was unreal! Pics and videos to come soon (of us doing our sound check before the memory card was full).
Another highlight was going to church in Astoria, and then eating the best fish and chips (made with tuna) then the Colombia River Maritime museum (got to listen to actual coast guard calls and see boats, ect). Next we walked 160 (one way) flights of stairs to the Astoria Ciolumn for a foggy view of the town (overlooking the bridge between Wa and Or).
Overall- good sister bonding time- too bad I missed seeing Aaron who was in Seaside with some other people. I am sure there are even more stories to tell, if I can think of them, I will post them later, along with more pics. Above are some pics of the maritime museum and of Astoria.
