[Day In The Life] Sou’Wester Lodge, Leadbetter Point State Park & Astoria, OR

6am. Neil gets up and head to the couch to do a little reading…
6:38am. I finally roll out of bed leaving a sleeping Alder. I pass a sleeping Edith on the way to the living area where I find a sleeping Neil who stirs and wakes up.
6:50am. Neil starts on coffee and I tidy up our space a bit.
7:15(ish). Edith wakes up
7:30am. I start on breakfast – tofu scramble with homefries.
7:35am. I set off the smoke alarm which startles all of us and wakes up Alder.
8am. It’s time for breakfast!
8:30am. We spend a awhile walking the grounds at the Sou’Wester, taking some traditional photos and we stop into the main lodge to secure some crayons and paper.
9:13am. We finally head back to the trailer and get ourselves ready for the day. 10am. We head to the Willapa Interpretive Center only to find it was closed so we head to Leadbetter Point State Park.
10:35am. We make it to Leadbetter State Park with the intention of going on a nature walk down to the beach. Little did we know that our nature walk would be a hike and it would a buggy and challenging one at that.
11:34am. We finally make it to the beach after getting eaten alive and scratched up by trees. I have to admit when the path finally cleared we found ourselves on the beautiful sand dunes and out on to a quite beach. After the horrible hike down to the beach we decided to take a chance and walk the 1/2 mile down the beach to get on a different path. Luckily this path was much clearer, less buggy and lead us to another beautiful spot.
12:45pm. We made it to the bay, another beautiful spot. Alder, who had been sleeping the entire time, finally woke up for the last .7 miles of our hike.
1:10pm. We stopped at a store for water and a snack before making our way to Astoria.
2:30pm. We made it to Buoy Brewing for a late lunch with two silly kids and no sea lion.
3:45pm. Coffee time! We pick up a coffee and some apple bites at Street 14 Coffee and wander around Astoria for a bit.
4:45pm. It starts to rain so we head back to The Sou’Wester Lodge
5:40pm. After a pit stop at the thrift shop we finally make is back and of course Edith has fallen asleep. We debate how long until we wake her up and decide due to the late hour that we would wake her up at 5:45pm.
6pm. Neil heads to the Garden Spa & Sauna and Edith has a painting session in our trailer.
6:10pm. Neil is back because the sauna closed for maintenance. Neil heads out in a bike ride and E continues to paint and I play a game with Alder that involves him dumping all the crayons on the floor, he picks eat one up, places in his mouth or attempts to and I say “crayons are not for eating” and return it to the box.
6:30pm. Edith wants to go for a walk to pick a new movie to watch while I make dinner.
7:30pm. It’s dinner time! We have Field Roasted Sausage sandwiches and salad.
8p. Dinner is over and we walk over to the lodge just for fun. Edith picks up Connect 4 to play back at the trailer.
8:30p. Edith plays a game with Neil.
9p. I nurse Alder to sleep and read in bed. Neil puts Edith to bed.
9:10p. Neil attempts sauna one last time but now it’s full.
9:15pm. I hear Neil return and get up and join him on the couch. Edith is still awake so we hold of playing a game since she is on the bunks which don’t have door to close them off.
9:45pm. I decide that I’m just too tired to stay up and I head to bed. Edith is still awake – thank you evening nap.
10pm. Neil comes to bed.