A Story Retold

The little man wanted to watch the pirate movie with the mermaids in it.  I can't watch the movie without remembering this trip.  And since it is on the old blog I thought I would repost it because it is such a great memory.

                                                                An Adventure

The littles and I packed up some snacks and a change of clothes, grabbed the camera and headed to the beach.  It was a nice drive down.  Hit Warrenton and the fog had set in.  Say what?  Brenda had jinxed us by telling me about areas of fog.  So we kept on driving down the coast.  Hit sun again about Manzanita.  Thought we would check out Rockaway and maybe stay there.  Yup.  Always a kink in our plans. 
The car decided to throw a battery code telling me the battery was no longer charging.  And so we headed back to bigger towns.
I knew this was totally changing our trip and by golly we were going to play on the beach.  So we stopped for an hour at Arcadia Beach State Park.  The littles loved the ocean and playing in the sand.  They really didn't want to leave, but it was getting dark.
Back on the road.  We made it to Astoria before the car gave up the ghost.  Parked and started walking back towards the hotels.  Hoping there would be a vacancy somewhere that wasn't going to cost an arm and a leg.  We found a room at a fleabag that wasn't too bad actually.  As we were going to sleep Connor reminded me about the mermaids.  We have an ongoing time with them   We watched the pirate movie that had the mean mermaids.  So I keep telling him the mermaids can't get him because they live in the ocean.  So he is laying there and says "mermaids".  I'm like what about them.  He goes "ocean", so I had to change my usual to I won't let the mermaids get him.
By this time Dave is panicking and decided that he would come down the next morning and help.  Didn't trust me to take care of it.  So I let him.  He showed up with Josh and they got a tow dolly and we all towed the car back to Portland Mini where it resides now until they fix it.  Hoping it is just a new battery and alternator.  I will be blessed if that is all.  And I am thankful for Dave and Joshs' help and that the littles and I still had a nice drive and time on the beach. And I'm laughing because I had almost invited Dave to join us and then he did anyway. 
We got mermaids at the Pig 'n Pancake before we left Astoria as a reminder of the nice mermaids who did not eat Connor or take him into the ocean. 
And darn now we need to go back again to finish the trip we had planned.