Ten minutes north of our cottage, was Lincoln City. We shopped the outlet malls there and got groceries. They don't have any Utah grocery stores.
Glass blowing and creating is a big tourist attraction along the coast. You can pay a pretty penny to make your own glass object, the most popular being a glass float. These are softball sized glass balls with a glass loop at the top to tie a rope on to. Hundreds of years ago, until present day, the Chinese, and others, use glass floats for their fishing fleets. They are like huge bobbers. The county makes and hides 2,000 of these floats along the coast every year for people to find between October and May. We didn't see any, but some people found one on our cottage beach while we were there. It was a really old one that had actually floated in, not just been placed. So that was pretty cool. We spent some time watching this woman in the picture, work in her glass studio, making a really cool goblet from molten glass. Fascinating.
We ate lunch here one day. We all ended up eating breakfast food. Darin and I wanted to go here because it was kind of exciting that the whole place was based on one of our favorite childhood books. (Which book is now completely racist and politically incorrect.) The restaurant is now called "Lil' Sambo's" and it's big feature is pancakes, of course. Logan and Ellie have never heard the story, so didn't really care too much about all the tigers wearing boys clothes and carrying an umbrella. Darin and I liked those tigers!
Glass blowing and creating is a big tourist attraction along the coast. You can pay a pretty penny to make your own glass object, the most popular being a glass float. These are softball sized glass balls with a glass loop at the top to tie a rope on to. Hundreds of years ago, until present day, the Chinese, and others, use glass floats for their fishing fleets. They are like huge bobbers. The county makes and hides 2,000 of these floats along the coast every year for people to find between October and May. We didn't see any, but some people found one on our cottage beach while we were there. It was a really old one that had actually floated in, not just been placed. So that was pretty cool. We spent some time watching this woman in the picture, work in her glass studio, making a really cool goblet from molten glass. Fascinating.
We ate lunch here one day. We all ended up eating breakfast food. Darin and I wanted to go here because it was kind of exciting that the whole place was based on one of our favorite childhood books. (Which book is now completely racist and politically incorrect.) The restaurant is now called "Lil' Sambo's" and it's big feature is pancakes, of course. Logan and Ellie have never heard the story, so didn't really care too much about all the tigers wearing boys clothes and carrying an umbrella. Darin and I liked those tigers!
The BEST thing about Lincoln city is this city park, right on the banks of a huge lake. How are people lucky enough to live on the coast, and also have this lake a two minute drive from the ocean? Seriously!!
The kids ran around like crazy, played tag with Darin, and pretty much LOVED this place. We went here on two different days because it is THAT amazing!
The park was a city/community project, and was built "Amish barn-raising style", by members of the community. It is now on my to-do list to figure out how to get something like this in our community. I don;t know what wood they used, but it is all smooth and you don't get splinters from it.
The park also has hiking trails through the forest. We ate a few berries that were not even near ripe. I can't wait to be in the northwest one of these years when the berries are actually ready to pick! Blackberries are considered weeds. They take over everything. The cities have work trucks with big swather-type things that go alone the roads and whack all the berry bushes off. Well Northwest....you just think you are so grand!! Why don't you send some of those berries that are such a bother, to us Utahans!! And while you are at it, we could use even a fraction of your moisture, or rivers, or lakes!! And why do you have all the trees? I figure one of your square miles has more than our entire county combined!!
And people wonder why I want to move there.....
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