Our Neighborhood

Woke up today facing another hot day.  First thing that greeted us was pictures of snow in Waldport.

view from our Oregon house to the south

We had several weather notifications on our phones... winter storm warning on the Oregon coast and continued heat wave here.  I picked up my phone at one point and saw 0 for the current reading in Waldport --a bit shocking until I realized my phone was reporting in C.  But 32 is still cold for Oregon.  Our neighbors reported that highway 34 between Waldport and Corvallis was closed - a combo of snow and downed trees.  And apparently Portland got 10 inches of snow.  At 9 am we were at 87 degrees, but then we picked up a strong breeze and never got to the century mark.  

By the end of the day a cold front was starting to move in from Western Australia... high was only in the 90s.

clouds moving in from the west

Today we hung around the nieighborhood and took care of household duties.  With a load of laundry in the washer, we headed down to the public library to print out our boarding passes and baggage tags for the cruise.  [NCL released the check-in documents 21 days before the cruise, right as we were leaving Waldport.  Got everything filled out, only to be told it would be 24- to 48-hours before we could get the final documents.  With no printer in Maui or Sydney, we were trying to figure out when we'd get a chance to print things... and as we came back from Adelaide, we walked right past the Holdfast Bay Public Library.  BINGO!] 

Our apartment is right across from Colley Preserve, a tree-lined park.

Liberty Towers from Colley Preserve

The park is heavily used... joggers, kids and dogs playing, and there was even what looked like a class.  

We ventured across the park to the local life saving club.

If you were to Google this, you would see one of the traditional clubs where they train life guards who can launch boats into the high surf to rescue swimmers.  

This club, however, also runs a popular restaurant on the second floor of the local amusement park, overlooking the beach.  It's open to the public, so we decided celebrate Friday with happy hour and dinner here.  And enjoy a little people watching.

view from the deck - over lawn and six beach volleyball courts

Kids coming back from the beach... decided to wait for Mom to get the car.  They put both surfboards and all the kids inside a midsize SUV.  The surfboards were perched on the front seat headrests and the kids were under them in the back seat!!

getting in a last volleyball game befoe sunset