July in Oregon....Oregon in July

A girls' night out for yummy Peruvian food!

Julie and me.

Selfie queens: Jan, Noel & Kara.

In true hipster fashion, we waited in a long line for ice cream at Salt & Straw one evening.

Kenzo had Stumptown Coffee & Burnside Bourbon....at 10:00 pm. 

The "Parent of the Year" award goes to....?!

For Kara's birthday, we loaded up and headed to the ocean!

The town of Cannon Beach is super cute and quaint, filled with tourist shops and restaurants.

Hey, kind of like where we are from!

Haystack Rock.

Such a nice, flat, long beach!

Bombed by Maya!!

This is what spending the day with an iPhone obsessed tween is like.

The skies cleared for a beautiful late afternoon beach session.

This photo was taken at 5:17pm. It was crazy how high the sun was this time of year!

Exploring the tide pools.

Oh the water? It was

F R E E Z I N G!

Lots of good digging work put in by this one.

And this one.

Dinner on the deck at Mo's!

Uh oh, dark clouds rolling in behind us!

7:00 pm and still enjoying the sunshine!

The kids and their Mo's souvenir t-shirts and toy. 

Seriously?!

Kara and I enjoyed massages while the kids played at Club Sport - what an awesome place!

Maya was so good about hanging out with Kenzo - she has such patience for her little shadow.

Finally got his Oregon hat!

And we finally got to catch up with the Kalish family at their annual neighborhood block party!

Of course Sumiko put out a huge spread of deliciousness!

Kenzo and Nikko - cousin love!!

Tables and food out in the street - what a perk of having neighbors as friends!

Happy 4th of July!

Photo taken at 9:30pm - wow!

Super good ramen at a new restaurant - so happy to have one last good meal before our flight back home.

Oregon pride!

Good visit, but nice to be home...