Oregon Coast Trip: Day One & Two

We took off last Wednesday for our family reunion on the Oregon Coast.  We took over 2000 photos this past week, (insane, i know) so it is going to be difficult to choose, but I hope to post the good ones.  The first night we only went to Boise, and we didn't leave until after Dad got off of work that day.  So there really wasn't anything too exciting that happened that day...except we were worried that we may not get a hotel room, but we finally found one.  We spent the night, and left early the next morning because we still had a long way to go.

So the trip from Boise through the first half of Oregon doesn't have much too look at.  Until you hit the Columbia River, and then there is lots to see.  Here is one of the dams, and then check out the windmills on TOP of the mountain.  Crazy huh?  There were a ton of them.

It was neat to see how quickly the terrain would change:

We never really went into Portland, just passed by it.  But before we got to that point, we jumped off the interstate and went to see Multnomah Falls.  On the way, we saw Horsetail Falls:

And I thought that was a huge waterfall until we saw this up ahead:

The Upper Falls is 542 feet tall. 

And the Lower Falls is 69 feet.

There's a huge rock at the bottom of the Upper Falls.

You could feel the spray on the overlook bridge.

Here's Mom and Dad at Multnomah Falls.

Hopefully someday I can go back, and we can hike to the top. 

So we continued on and headed to Astoria.  The road signs were either tricky to see, or nonexistent...so it took a little longer than it prolly should have, but we pulled into Astoria around 6:30 that night.  When we pulled in to town, we saw this HUGE bridge that crossed the Columbia River over to Washington.  Being easily entertained...the first thing we decided to do was cross it, haha.

The camera couldn't really capture how big it was, but 

this photo of it over top of a four story hotel kinda helps you see.

Then we went up to the Astoria Column.  It is up on a big hill

and lets you view the entire surrounding area.

 To get to the top, you climb up a spiraling staircase with

165 steps.  Here's Mom and Shelby below...

...and Dad and Megan above. (about half way)

 

Mom and I got a little dizzy/sick as we were climbing.

We were sure glad when we made it to the top! haha

Here's a view of the bridge from the top of the Column. 

After a LONG day in the car, this was a beautiful site to end it with.