Newport, Oregon - A weekend at the beach house!

My friends (John and Troy, picture below) invited me to spend the second weekend in October with them at a beach house just north of Newport, Oregon. The beach house is right at the coast overlooking the beach. The view is awesome. When you walk in the house and look out the window, it seems like you are on a cruise ship because all you can see is the ocean water.

I've included some of my favorite pictures. I thought Jason, Ashley, Jenna, Casey and Charity would like to see these since we will be having our next family reunion there in June 2010.

I loved the sunsets best of all.

My Shrimp and Crab Louie (picture below)was so delicious! I'd love to go back again. I think the restaurant was named the Tidal Rave. A couple of the pictures here were taken from the restaurant as the restaurant is right on the coast also.





Don't miss the guy para-sailing in the picture further down. He was far away and I zoomed in as much as I could. He went under water right after I took this picture. It's the picture with what looks like a green kite. (At first we thought he was flying a kite.)

The clouds are interesting - wispy sometimes and just over the horizon in others. I liked watching the birds flying along the coast. They were flying north - I thought birds flew south for the winter?


I had a great weekend and enjoyed the relaxation I had there. It was hard to leave but I know I'll be returning in June, if not before.