Last September, Victor won a great package at my dad's Rotary Club's golf tournament. A ride on the Rogue River "Jerry's" Jet Boats, hotel stay, 9 holes of golf and dinner at one of the local Gold Beach restaurants.
I decided to put it all together in one weekend so we could hit up the South Coos Bay (Coquille) Relay For Life and car show.
It's a LONG drive from our place to Gold Beach...311 miles. We left mid-morning, drove through the town of Drain and had lunch in Coos Bay. Continuing on, we finally got to Gold Beach, in time for the fog/clouds to roll in...it apparently doesn't normally do that in Gold Beach??
We had a nice dinner, Charlotte hung out in the hot tubs, walk along the beach and then we crashed. Up early the next morning and got to the boat check-in 40+ minutes early...they ended up asking and putting us on an earlier boat and it was the entire day trip... yeah us! Not only that, another boat stopped working, so we went back down river 1/2 to get 14 of their passengers and then continue up the river. It was a GREAT day....
Victor and I managed to miss a few spots with sunblock, so on Saturday when we arrived in Coquille for the car show and the 80+ sun, it was a little too much for me to take. We hung out with MJ, Angie, Karen, Grant & Becky for a bit, then ended up heading home around 3pm. It still took 4.5 hours to get home....no traffic, just a long drive.
GREAT Thursday-Saturday get away!
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| Grant in the Back to the Future Delorean |
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| MJ, Karen, Angie and I at South Coos Bay pre-Relay |
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| MJ, Charlie and Angie |
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| Natalie and the penguin I made for her. |
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| Becky & MJ |
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| Karen and Charlie |
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| Not THAT is a dessert |
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| Lunch break at Agnus on the Rogue River |
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| Drove in the sunshine the entire way to the coast...get to Cape Blanco and the fog/clouds roll in?? |
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| Walking on Gold Beach |
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| After the AWESOME day on the jet boat! |
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| Charlie relaxing in the hot tub. |
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| Awesome flat rocks at this beach! |
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| Victor and the Star Wars gang at the South Coos Bay Relay car show! |
