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I picked up four rolls of film on Friday afternoon and scanned and edited them all on Saturday. I was pretty sick on Saturday but I still really wanted to see what I managed to capture. It ended up taking all day because of how I felt, but I managed to get it done. I'm bummed that some of the pictures I was looking forward to seeing didn't turn out, but that's how film and the photographer is sometimes, I guess! I thought I'd share some of my favorite photos from the batches.

LCA+ photos:

(You can see all of them here.)

Yaquina Head lighthouse beach

 Yaquina Head lighthouse

Yaquina Head lighthouse 

Kruger's Kermesse 

The following photos are all from Jonathan's parents' house.

Diana F+ photos:

(You can see all of them at this link.)

Yaquina Head lighthouse

Yaquina Head lighthouse 

Yaquina Head lighthouse 

 Yaquina Head lighthouse beach

 Yaquina Head lighthouse beach 

American flag in the reflection of the Cape Meares lighthouse lens 

View from Cape Meares lighthouse 

 Mount St. Helens!

Cool bridge on the way to Mount St. Helens

What did everyone else do this weekend? ONE WEEK UNTIL I LEAVE TOWN!! EEEE!!! More on that another day. ;o)

TGIF, my friends! I'm so glad that it's Friday and I'm super excited because we're going to the beach tonight! We're going to Newport to stay at the Sylvia Beach Hotel. We are going to stay in the same room as stayed last time - the Melville room! It's decorated with a nautical theme and looks out onto the beach. The four pictures above were taken from our window over the weekend we stayed there in April, 2011. There was a storm one of the nights, which was the middle picture. UGH, I'm just so excited!

 My view of the room from my bed

Whaling?

 Our room key

 Breakfast is included with room stay!

Possibly the best part? Dickens, the hotel cat!

Jonathan took this video of Dickens drinking!

The last time we were in Newport was in October for our five year anniversary, so it's been awhile. Newport is one of "our" places, so we'll be going to our favorite spots. The plan is breakfast at the hotel, the aquarium, lunch at Cafe Stephanie, and dinner (and beers) at Rogue Brewery, with lots of walking on the beach. This post has quite a few film pictures from Newport that I've taken.

Have a great weekend, everyone!

I recently got some film developed that I thought was from Easter Sunday, when Jonathan and I went to Cape Lookout to go check out whales. Imagine my surprise when the roll was of my dad and I's trip to the Cape Meares lighthouse and Mount Saint Helens last summer! (Which means I'm not sure where our Easter roll is... *sad face*)

Here's some of my favorites from that roll!

As I mentioned before, Jonathan and I had a pret-ty great weekend. Saturday we explored the Pittock Mansion here in Portland and then Sunday we decided to hit the road for Easter! We went to Cape Lookout to see if we could see any whales and, boy howdy, we sure did! Tons of whales!

Neither of us had been to Cape Lookout before, so it was a special trip for both of us. The hike in was 2.4 miles and was pretty easy. There were a few ups, downs, and overs, but it was mostly really MUDDY in some spots. Luckily, we had our trusty Columbia hiking shoes on and we were fine. The people we passed who were wearing flip flops......probably not so lucky!

It was a perfect temperature at the lookout. It was a wee bit windy, but it was warm, so neither of us were shivery. We stayed there looking for whales for a little over an hour and then decided to head back. There had been talk of fish tacos at Ecola Seafoods and with it being an hour back to the car and then over another hour drive to Cannon Beach, we needed to hit the road!

We got to Cannon Beach and there were tourists EVERYWHERE. For it being Easter, I was surprised at how many people were there. However, we found parking and upon opening our car doors, all we could smell was fresh waffle cone! Ohhhh, it smelled so good and toasty! We had talked about getting ice cream at Tillamook Cheese Factory when we passed through and then decided to go straight for the fish tacos instead, so to smell this magical smell... oh, man.

We made our way to Ecola Seafoods and when we got there I was pooped. I inhaled my fish taco, though! It was SO GOOD. (They are always fabulous and I highly recommend them!) We had wanted to do more exploring in the afternoon, going to Ecola Park and then having dinner at Fort George, but I was so tired and it was so late and such a successful day that we decided to turn around and head home. 

Good thing we did because I fell asleep in the car! I slept almost the whole ride back to Portland. I felt like a little kid who has a full day of adventure and then eats and is *out*. That was me.

It was a super fun weekend and I had such a great time with Jonathan! I can't wait until our next adventure!

P.S. Holy crap, I just found a great article about the plane crash on Cape Lookout. Sad!

P.P.S. If you are me, it is a good day if you get to pee in the woods not just once, but twice!

This is a shell midden that I TOTALLY nerded out on!!

Sea lion buddy, not a whale

SUCCESS!!