The morning after....

The morning after our awful night of "sleep" we 'woke up' at 7:45AM... did we ever really sleep?? I dunno. However, we weren't going to let a little thing like lack of sleep stop us from having fun! No sir.

So we headed on a walk out to the beach. The Beverly Beach State park is on the east side of 101 and you walk under this bridge to get out to the beach. It was so pretty that morning.

Aren't those 3 boys cute?

Quincy was really insistent that he find some sea shells... so he looked hard. Unfortunately at almost 8:00AM all the good ones are usually gone. He did find a few good ones though.

Hunting for more sea shells.

Okay, let me preface the picture below by saying that BEFORE we even left for the beach that Quincy REALLY wanted to find a start fish. We kindly reminded him that he MIGHT not be able to find one, especially a whole one, but he remained optimistic. While we walked along the beach that morning and found sea glass, cool colored rocks, little sea shells, or pieces of cool ones and we resigned that he might not get that star fish he was hoping for. However, after walking about 1/4 mile and just as we were about to turn back Tyler spotted one! A whole starfish. Quincy was so exited. I was not excited that it was still moving (barely). We stuck him in the bucket and headed back.

After washing the shells, getting dressed, and packing up our campsite we headed out to eat breakfast in Newport at a breakfast place called Pig N Pancake. I don't know if it was the lack of sleep,or that I didn't have to make it, or the fact that I had been cold for so long, but THAT breakfast was the best I've had in SUCH a long time.

And I must say, the boys had fun coloring on their menus and the table (Braxton), the waitress was great, the food was delivered promptly, and most importantly tasted delicious!

I got waffles with strawberries and whipped cream, and a side of bacon and eggs.

Tyler, who was feeling adventurous since we were at the coast, got a crab omlette, hashbrowns, and sour dough toast. I acutally had some... and it was quite tasty!

And the fun didn't stop there...