Oregon 2015 - Day 5

This morning my dad had planned to take our little family on a sand dune ride.  He had taken the other sibling's family last year and wanted our family to get the experience.  When I say "take" I mean that my dad paid for a professional to take us on the sand dunes in their sand buggy.

We met him at the sand dune place where we got all ready to go on our ride.  Since they only sit up to 4 people, plus the driver, we were just going to have Megan and Allie stay in the car with my mom and Teagan while we went on our ride.  Megan did not want to be left out and said she really wanted to go with mommy.  So we separated and Tony and the boys did the first ride for a half an hour and then Megan and I did the ride after them.

Since we were taking turns my parents left and Megan, Allie, and I hung out in the car while we waited for the boys.  Megan did sit in a sand buggy and pretended to drive it.  She thought that was pretty fun.
After the boys got back it was our turn.  We got our helmets on and away we went.  Our driver took us up over some really big hills and then back down the other side.  He told us some really interesting things about the sand dunes, like that the wind moves the dunes and hills so every time he comes out they are different.  It was really interesting.  He didn't do anything too wild.  Pretty much just up and down some hills and then back to the cars.  It was a good first experience with the sand dunes and made us excited about doing some more riding on the dunes when the kids are all older, much older.
After we were all done with our ride we drove back into Coos Bay and stopped at Walmart for a few things.  Then we dropped off our things and got back into the car where we drove back to Bandon.
Bandon was one of the cities that we drove threw to get to Gold Beach for the speed boat ride.  It is where my dad thought a McDonald's would be.  We thought that the town looked super cute and that it would be a fun place to get lunch and to walk around.

So while the rest of our family went to Bruce's cabin we went to check out Bandon.  It is only about 30 minutes away from where we were staying.  Once there we drove around looking for a place to eat lunch.  We decided to eat at a Mexican place by the boardwalk.  The food was good enough to fill us up.  Not great but not bad.
After lunch we put Allie in the stroller and checked out a bunch of the local stores that they had.  We did buy some treats at the candy store, but that is about it.

After all the shopping we went to the water.  They had a really cute boardwalk area with all these ocean animals carved out of wood.  The kids loved running from animal to animal trying to be the first ones on it.

After we had walk the whole boardwalk and found all the animals we decided to head back to our cabin.  Bandon did have a really yummy creamery in their town, but we were still full from lunch.  We did stop at the creamery on the way back from Gold Beach the day before.  Their ice cream was really good and they gave you a lot of it for not very much money.  We were very impressed with their ice cream and will definitely go again next time.  We were not however impressed with their cheese.  They had some really weird flavors of cheese that they make in their little cheese room.  We will stick with the ice cream for sure. 

After we got back the rest of the family was still at Bruce's cabin so we all just hung out in our cabin.  The kids were being silly in the loft area and kept throwing down their stuffed animals.  We have such silly kids.
Then this evening we just let all the kids play outside in the forest and we all sat around chatting, enjoying the cooler weather.  It has been such a fun relaxing trip so far.  Good times are definitely being had by all.