Seattle's best!

So I will try to recap the last two days as best I can because it all seems such a blur of driving, eating, and imbibing!  John and Lisa, the owners of the Shady Oaks b and b, served up a wonderful breakfast of fresh fruit and eggs benedict to all the guests at 9 am on their patio.  What a wonderful way to start the day.  We packed up and headed back to the coast to continue our adventure north.  My goal was to find Glass Beach near Fort Bragg (remember Margo, you told me about this years ago?!)  Apparently back in the 70's and 80's the residents there were allowed to dump their trash over the cliff.  Over time all the glass bottle shards tumbled smooth and now the beach is literally "litered" with beach glass...any other garbage is long gone.  So it was a field day for me (Kelly and Fran you would have been in heaven too!) EXCEPT any removal of the glass is forbidden.  I may have snuck a piece or two into my pocket:)  Anyway, we ended up spending some time on the rocks and the beach enjoying a picnic lunch.  As we drove even further north we were treated to miles and miles of giant redwoods lining the road.  There was a hokey spot where you could pay $5 to drive through a redwood, take pictures, and visit the souvenir shop so that's what we did!  Our destination for the night was a Hilton in Eugene OR but it became apparent that we were not going to make it in a reasonable amount of time.  The roads are extemely windy and steep and actually taxing on the driver so we cancelled that reservation and booked into an oceanfront lodge in Crescent City CA where we did some laundry, ordered in a pizza, and watched tv...so reminiscent of our bike trip days (well at least the evenings that we actually "stayed in!")  Got the the good nights sleep that was needed and out the door by 6.
The final leg to Seattle began.  We had a good 9 hour day ahead of us so our only planned fun activity was lunch in Portland OR.  We were very impressed with the casual, laid back feel to this fairly major city.  sunny day, happy people, awesome meal at Huber's in downtown.  Got really excited as we approached the city where Joel's sister Lauri has lived for over thirty years.  We have never been so this visit should be lots of fun!  Talked to Lauri and made plans to meet on Friday.  In the meantime we checked in to our hotel, freshened up then headed out to walk the city and then enjoy a fabulous (can you tell by the look on my sunburned face??) meal of raw oysters and foi gras atop a seared day boat scallop at a place called the Brooklyn.  Ahhhhh.