Closing out in Washington and Oregon

  We have been hanging out with family and friends in Oregon and Washington these past few weeks.  We have been clamming, camping, cemetery chasing, and just chilling out with relatives and friends.  It has been a good wrap up for the trip.  We will be heading home in a few days.

Grayland Beach

We got four limits of clams, but then couldn't eat them because a toxin warning came out.

Duncan got to help move this boat from Aberdeen to Westport.

The salty sailor.

The dog seems to like the wetter climate and likes the trails.

Ali getting a pedicure.

Raylie worked at riding her bike without training wheels while camping in Oregon.

And she sticks the landing!

Our "home" in Memaloose State Park.

Hiking with friends and family.

Raylie and Meara, the new BFF's

I found out that my relatives were a pioneering family in the Salem area.  Several are buried in this cemetery.

One of the Blanton plots.

This plot has my great-great grandparents and a few of their children.

This is my great-great grandfather.  He traveled to Oregon on the Oregon Trail in 1853.  It was neat to learn about relatives on the Oregon trail since Sydney had been learning about the Oregon Trail.  

This is my great-great grandmother.  She also "crossed the plain" as they say, when she was about nine years old.

This is my great grandparent's plot. Raymond is a son of John and Catherine. A few of their children are buried near by.

While we were at the cemetery a woman drove up.  She wandered over to the big Blanton plot, so I asked if she knew the Blantons.  She replied, "I am a Blanton."  She turned out to be my dad's cousin.  So funny to go looking for dead relatives and meeting a live one! We were the only people in the cemetery, what's the chance of that?