More Seaside Pictures!!

Ahhh...the paddleboats...that was interesting! :) There is a river that runs through the town of Seaside, and you can rent various different devices to travel it. Paddleboats sounded real fun to us!


The problem was it was a VERY warm day and wearing those lifejackets was like torture...but it was the rule. Another problem is paddling those boats is work! This was especially tough for John and I as we had spent the earlier portion of the day on funcycles (see pictures below). Our legs were shot...we were useless. Then we had John II who didn't want to sit in the boat but hang over the edge and try and fall in! :) He was also quite hot, so I can't blame him. In my parents boat they had Storm and Josiah who would "forget" to peddle and then Josiah who had to go potty so bad they had to row the boat somewhere where he could jump off and go...too funny. Then we overhear my Mom telling my Dad that he was steering them in the wrong direction, and he was arguing back that he wasn't... as they were heading away from where they were supposed to be going. Well, we were laughing because we knew that when we had been close enough, John had grabbed the back corner of the boat and turned them in the wrong direction! It was so funny....I'm still laughing about that. This whole trip was such a blast but I think we were all glad to get off the paddleboats!
Doesn't that lifejacket make a nice necktie on John? :)


The Funcycles... These were SOOO fun! Well, let me warn you though...you have to carry them from town to the beach and back, AND riding down the beach against the wind is VERY hard work. But just when you think you can't take it anymore, you get to turn around and ride with the wind and that was a total blast! John and I were whipping around in circles and doing figure 8's and stuff. The interesting thing about these is that they don't balance themselves...if you get off they fall over.
John riding through all the birds.
Josiah trying out our funcycle..it was a little big for him. We rode them all the way down to the North end of the beach where our house was so the kids could see them. You can see some of the houses where we were staying in this picture. Those houses sell for around 1.8 million!!! Wow!
Look at my very spiritual child caught praying by the fire :) Awwwwwww
This was John II throwing up his arms and saying "I did it!" everytime he threw a stick or wad of paper in the fire (The fire is not as close as it appears!)



I still have some GREAT pictures of the actual ocean and sunsets and more...coming soon!