With the extra time that Eric took off from work and the great weather forecast, we felt like we should go do something for his birthday. It's not everyday that you turn 33, so we decided to go down to Oceanside to the navy base to enjoy their beach cottages, sun and surf. We were so excited to get there, after spending time in heavy Friday traffic and getting lost multiple times on the base. But when we went to check in, Eric was informed that Saturday the electricity would be out from 8 am to 6 pm on half of the base while they upgraded the power grid. So we were totally annoyed because no one told us that when we made the reservation and the one single thing that Eric wanted to do on his birthday was watch the Seahawks game. Seriously, he said I don't care what we do this weekend but I have to watch the game. That was his one request. Well, the game started at 1:30, so clearly he wouldn't be watching it at the beach house. We toyed with the idea of getting another hotel, but the location could not be beat and being offered half price to stay, we decided to tough it out. And I'm so glad we did. The kids had such an amazing time. They spent as much time out on the beach as they could. The main downer to the power outage was the game and that we couldn't cook any food ourselves, but other than that, it didn't dampen our stay as much as I thought it would. The weather was awesome, the kids spent their time pulling each other around on the boogie board, making sand angels, sand castles, collecting shells and hermit crabs, etc. I haven't seen Lillie that happy in a long time. There were other kids to play with on the beach and so when Ian was napping, I spent my time on the patio reading a book and watching the kids play in the sand. It was heavenly. Around lunchtime on Saturday, we headed to the Oceanside Beach Cafe and had some amazing food. Seriously, I cannot wait to go there again. The coffee cake was so delicious. We were able to get a table near a TV playing the Hawks game and so Eric was able to watch most of the first half there and then was able to watch the game on my phone for the second half. So while it wasn't ideal, he was able to watch the game and thankfully they were able to pull off a win. Phew! And after playing all afternoon until the sunlight was gone, we went to dinner at Chili's and were able to use a gift card from Christmas. It started off on a low note when we found out there wouldn't be any power, but it turned out to be an amazing and very memorable trip.
There were lots of beach houses, but we chose one that was in between two jettys so that the water would be calm and therefore, the kids could play in it without us worrying. Also, the house was a lot closer to the water, so I could watch them from the patio. So while the view wasn't as great as the other beach cottages, these were ideal for families with little kids.
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