Helping with Lulu

After our beach camping trip, I acted on a crazy impulse and bought a vintage travel trailer. It's a 15-foot turquoise 1964 Fleetcraft named Lulu (she came with the name, we decided to keep it).

Like all projects of this nature, the needed repairs turned out to be more extensive than originally thought, but I had fun (right?!) over the last two months getting her fixed up enough to go on our road trip mid-August. 

The first day Madelyn helped me with some intial cleaning. If only a good scrubbing was all Lulu needed...

After a while Madelyn got bored and played with some stuffed animals in the back of the Yukon instead. 

Rose Festival

At the Portland Rose Festival, we let Madelyn choose a treat; she was pretty excited about this giant shaved ice.

I gotta admit, it's way better than a snow cone.

Madelyn was also very excited to go through this kiddie obstacle course. It probably cost $2.50 worth of tickets at least, and then when she reached the other side of the bridge she refused to go down the twisty slide because she was afraid of the ball pit at the bottom I think? We assured her the ball pit was several feet away from the slide and that she could slide down and then exit, but she basically lost control of her senses and we literally had to climb the exterior of the contraption to rescue Madelyn like a kitten stuck in a tree. It was all pretty adventurous, and thankfully when the Carney noticed Gary and I suspended from the side of his operation, he was friendly and understanding of the predicament. He even said we could get our tickets put back on the FunCard! But we'd had enough fun and the number of tickets wouldn't have gotten us anything else without buying more tickets, so we skipped that. But the thought was nice!

Madelyn sure does love herself a good carousel. Which is any carousel, I suppose.

Gary got to ride the tiger roller coaster with Madelyn this time. It's a family favorite at the fair!

Beach Camping Trip

We joined the Fairhurst family for a camping trip at Nehalem Bay State Park. We really enjoyed the time and thought it was a very nice campground. We did have very strong winds the first night.

Madelyn trying to help pump up the air mattress.

Building sand sculptures with Jack.

Windy on the dunes, but a lovely, sunny day!

Madelyn and Jack ran up and down this hill again and again--only a few arguments over who "won" ensued.

Sandy toes!

Sunset on the beach.

Oregon Coast Love