Denmark listed as a city on the map, but all we found there was the street signs and one defunct espresso stand/store. There literally was nothing else there, I don't even think we saw any houses from the road.
Dunes - we didn't get there until 7pm and had to make sure we got back into town (Florence, OR) for dinner before the restaurants closed. This was one of the best sights on our trip. The sand was silky soft. We didn't even take our shoes with us. As we walked up a steep hill from the parking lot all was calm . . . until we got to the crest of the hill and then it was sand blast time. I made the mistake of having the girls put on sunscreen before we left our hotel . . . Big Mistake . . . especially having them use the sticky stick sunscreen. They hadn't put on sunscreen earlier in the day like they should have, so I was going to "make-up" for that even though it was already early evening. I was also not thinking about the fact that the beach was completely socked in by fog. Wishful thinking, I guess. When we left Florence which is right on the water, the downtown was clear, but on and off all day we'd go through fog banks as we got right up next to the water, but a mile or so inland it would be clear. I should have known the dunes would be socked in too, I was just hoping they wouldn't be. Needless to say, the sunscreen was a great vehicle for the sand to stick to! Haley was walking around with a sand unibrow for at least a day afterwards, even after swimming and a shower. I hadn't noticed it, so didnt purposely wash it off and it just stuck there. The dunes were so incredibly fun. It felt like being in another world, sort of like being on the moon trying to walk around in it and climb the dunes. It was so cool to watch how the sand formations behaved when we stepped on them. It felt like we were in a blizzard, but warmer and drier than a snow blizzard. Make no mistake, it wasn't warm, but definitely warmer than snow. I got some great pics of the girls.
Mo's - for dinner John found a perfect place for us. He had seen it advertised on a billboard, so I was wondering what we were in for, but it was just what the Dr ordered. It was casual, kid freindly, cheap, popular, fast, and right on the water. It was kind of like a casual Ivars. We could not have found a more perfect type of place to eat in after being sandblasted and feeling tired and dirty. We didn't know it, but it is an Oregan Coast tradition. Shrimp salad and clam chowder - yum!
BJ's Playdough Ice Cream - we couldn't pass up the ice cream place across the street, though we should have, I was way too stuffed to eat ice cream, but you gotta do what you gotta do. The girls had playdough ice cream. It was genious. It actually looked like there were streaks of real playdough in the ice cream. The streaks were many different colors. I think it was just colored sugar cookie dough similar to chocoloate chip cookie dough ice cream - why didn't I think of this, so clever!
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