WEST COAST (part one)

What do you do when your husband leaves for a month with the Army during the middle of Summer and you're living with your parents? You talk them into going on a trip they've always wanted to do and take me with them! And because it happened to fall right over the week of my birthday, we had to bring my twin! Happy Birthday to us! Honestly though, I'm so grateful my parent's agreed to go as long as we helped them plan the plane tickets and hotels. They would have been LOST without us! ;)
We made arrangements to fly into Pasco, WA Friday  July 15th and head over to Portland, Oregon and then down the Coast to  fly back from San Francisco on July 22nd. Just a week to get through every little seaside town and beach all the way down the coast!! Sounds impossible right? But we did and most importantly, we enjoyed it!! I wish I had time and the memory to write about the details of each day but instead I'll just share the photos and destinations along our trip.

 Friday June 15th 

Flew into Pasco, WA where we spent the night with some family. That day we headed up to see Cooley Dam and Dry Falls. 

 Saturday July 16th
After picking up our rental car we headed west in search of the Coast. Along the way it went from flat dead fields to incredibly green moss covered hills along the Columbia River. We began to fall in love with Oregon after just entering it. Just before getting into Portland we stopped along the Columbia River highway to do a couple of famous hikes and it ended up being one of our favorite days of the whole trip because of the breathtaking hikes.

Multnomah Falls

Oneonta Gorge

This hike was a total copy of Zion National Park's Narrows hike...only GREEN!!! Absolutely amazing and my favorite one.

After  couple of Hikes we stopped in downtown Portland, which didn't last long. We stumbled into a bad part of Portland and just didn't care much to see anything there, so we headed to the only thing we actually cared about. The LDS Portland, Or temple! After we went to our place in Camus WA for the night at a fireman's house my dad used to work with. We were blessed to have many friends and family offer us places to stay along our trip!

LDS Portland, Or Temple