Blog Letters: Beach Vacation - Day Five - "Bike Rides And More Pizza"

I awoke to the cabin coming to life. Sunshine through the windows, voices from the kitchen, coffee brewing, and creaking of floor boards. I rolled over giving one last thought to staying in bed and them decided to get up and find coffee. After retrieving my beverage I sat down at the table and visited with my Uncle while Dad cooked up pancakes and sausage. We all ate the delicious breakfast and got ready to go for a bike ride.
With air in all the tires, day packs ready and water bottles filled the six of us (and Roman) took off for the discovery trail that you can enter at the Seaview approach. It was a lovely day for a ride and the it was a nice trail that went through the dunes and was an easy ride so you could just enjoy the views.

My bike on the trail

The views were cool

My amazing parents

Roman

When we returned from the ride we decided to head down to Wakikki beach area for pizza there is a really cool pizza guy in the store by the campground he has a great personality and is super friendly and kind. It gives your more of the feel of eating at someones house instead of at a restaurant, plus his pizza is really tasty and it has fun outdoor seating.

The pizza

To work off our pizza we went from the pizza place down to the ports in Ilwaco to look at the boats. It was such an exciting atmosphere as the fisherman were coming in from a hard days work and the farmer's market was shutting down for the day. It seemed like you were walking through another world. One of my favorite things I did when I walked through the port and look to see where all the different boats where from and guess what kind of adventures they where having.

Elly if you ever read this blog

this is for you

Returning to the cabin we had a lovely dinner and then all relaxed and visited that's what you are suppose to do on vacation right?

James reading in our room

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