Somebody goofed!

Somewhere along the way, the weather man goofed.  This is NOT a travel day, and yet, we have rain!? I don't understand.  The system has been working so well. On the other hand, "This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it."  (Psalm 118:24)

We took the girls out for a morning potty break.  They were grateful. After a bit of a stroll around the park and the marina, we returned to Sadie and did some reading.  We are reading a book to each other. It is titled The Life You've Always Wanted, by John Ortberg.  What a great book!  Ortberg writes with clarity, humor, compassion and understanding.  His topic is "how to live as Jesus would if He were in your place." It is the best book I have read about spiritual discipline. Unfortunately, we finished it up this morning. (I guess now we have to apply what we learned.)

After our reading time, we went up to see Garibaldi.  It is not large, but there are some interesting shops.  We stopped at the pharmacy, which, like many a pharmacy nowadays, is a gift shop that dispenses pharmaceuticals in the back.  We found some fun things for someone we love who has a birthday this week. From the pharmacy, we went on to the grocery store to find some fresh fruit. We were pleasantly surprised by what seemed like very reasonable prices.

So, having "done" Garibaldi, we headed down the highway and came to Bay City (I couldn't help thinking of the British boy band of old called the Bay City Rollers).  There we came upon the Pacific Oyster Co. Jill  has been craving pan fried oysters, so we stopped for lunch.  Our little waitress took our order, which included a cup each of clam chowder. In a little while she returned with two enormous bowls and said, "We are out of cups, so I tried to estimate how much a cup is and put it in these bowls, but I will only charge you for a cup."  I hope the boss doesn't find out about this caper. I'm sure that was the biggest "cup" or maybe even "bowl" of chowder I have ever had.  And the quantity was matched nicely by the quality. 

Jill had her fried oysters, and I chose fish and chips. Neither of us was able to finish, after the enormous portions of chowder. So, we have seafood for dinner.

From Bay City, we continued on to Tillamook, a larger city, famed for dairy products. We hadn't any agenda in mind, but I noticed gas was a bit cheaper than we have encountered, so I filled up Daisy Mae's gas tank. The rain was coming in torrents now, so we headed back toward Garibaldi.  Along the way, we decided to drive into the business district of Bay City. It is very small. We continued up one of the streets (4th, to be exact) and arrived at a junction with a winding road. I couldn't resist. We wound along the mountainside, through the forest, enjoying periodic views of the bay and eventually arrived back on US 101, just outside Garibaldi.

That is about it for today, so far, but it is early, so we'll see what else develops. In the meantime, here is a photo I took just before bed time last night.