Tourists

Saturday we did the tourist thing. :) Visited Yaquina Head Lighthouse. The wind was so fierce it almost ripped our eyeglasses off our faces. :-o The rocky crags were most impressive, and the waves crashing in were almost deafening. Can’t wait to go back during whale watching season.

Went to several beachs, but no toe dipping as either the beach was closed or there was no parking. We'll try Agate Beach on Monday when the real tourists have gone home. *grins*

For dinner we went to Nye Beach and ate at “April’s”. Highly over rated in my opinion, and since Mr. Retired agrees, I don’t think we’ll be pounding on their door again any time soon. Hehehe After dinner we took a short drive and then returned to our room to relax! It’s been a long several days/weeks. We talked, read, and just plain goofed off and enjoyed ourselves. Went out for a bit to “Flashbacks” and had a dish of ice cream. Gosh, we really did act like goofy tourists. LOL!

This has sure been a great trip. We have completely enjoyed ourselves. Plus, we now know what our future hometown is like. Best of all we know we’ll like it here: the weather, the shopping, the people. Now we just need a roof over our heads.

Booking It
Saaturday we also visited 2 book stores and what did we do? We bought books, of course. For some reason this strikes me as funny. We buy books here, so that we can pack them in our suitcase and take them down to our present home, where we will pack them in a box and bring them back here. HAHAHA!!!

So what did we add to our library? Me, I bought my usual stuff. I looked for some books by James Grippando, but none to be found. Darn! I did pick up an older Ken Follett (back when he was a better author), and 2 books by James Patterson: “When the Wind Blows” and “The Lake House”.

Mr. Retired, now he’s an interesting man. He bought a serious book. Serious in more ways than the subject. The book is 4 inches thick, 932 pages, and weighs approx. 5 pounds. I figure he’ll be reading “The Autobiography of Henry the VIII” for several months.

Sunset
From our patio we have a view westward and we have seen some spectacular sunsets. Saturday’s was most impressive with the fog bank out on the horizon, and the red sun dipping slowly below it as though it were melting. It made me think of Malachi ...

“For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the LORD of hosts.”—Malachi 1:11