Long Beach in November...

We headed to Long Beach, WA last weekend with my parents and some family friends. The main reason was to go clamming, the other was to get out of town. Weather predictions for that weekend at the coast were horrible but we figured we'd go and hangout by the fire and play games. We were treated with 45 degree weather on Saturday mixed with a whole day of sunshine. It was perfectly amazing! We look an hour walk on the beach, napped, went clamming in the sunshine and ate dinner and played games. It really was a nice weekend away from home. My parents rented a house and so that was an added benefit of not being stuck in a hotel the whole time. We learned to play the game Canasta and played a round of 10,000. Canasta is kind of link rummy and was totally confusing for the first day. I somewhat eventually got the hang of it but there are a lot of rules. 10,000 is more my style (mainly because I know how to play it) and was a bit bummed we only got one round in. All in all it was a nice 2 night break from home.

View from the beach house. Just about 2 blocks from the beach.

The neighbors had these rocking horses which many of my family members might recall from my childhood...we called our Fuerrie...he even made noise and my parents still have him...waiting (somewhat) patiently for the grandchildren to arrive to use him.

Jason

Sunny beach in November!!

Doughnuts!!!

Enjoying the sunshine on the deck

Enjoying both the sunshine and hot apple cider.

The men of the trip digging for clams.

with all our loot and supplies.

driving down the beach home. hot apple cider and sunshine.

so pretty! and to think it was November!!!