Thursday 22 October 2009

I Don't Care If Monday's Blue

I spent the morning of my 27th birthday in Bandon, Oregon, eating chocolate cake on the beach.

I could live in Bandon. I said that about pretty much every town we visited on our road trip but I really meant it about Bandon.

We didn't have much time to spend there (Bandon is over 500 miles from the Canadian border) so we couldn't do much exploring, but we will definitely go back one day (and when we do, we'll be staying at the Best Western Inn at Face Rock and eating at Bandon Bill's Grill again because we received excellent customer service at both. Seriously, best customer service I have encountered in a long time (and not just because they gave us free chocolate cake when Shawn told them it was my birthday.))

I could have stayed on the beach and listened to the waves crash all day long.


From Bandon we made our way to the Oregon sand dunes. Back in the planning stages of our road trip, the guys were quite adamant that we atv on the sand dunes. I was less enthusiastic. I was assured that if I did not want to participate I wouldn't have to. Fast forward to the bullshit guilt trip I got from Shawn in front of our road trippin' peeps and the owner of the atv rental guy about how atv-ing wouldn't be any fun without me and how could I ditch the group when we'd done everything as a group so far. Bullshit! So I went atv-ing on the sand dunes on my birthday. (Do you know what we did on Shawn's birthday this year? We went on a boat trip in the Dominican Republic and drank rum all day. Just sayin'.)

So it turns out that the dunes are actually quite pretty. I'm not an atv convert now or anything like that but it was ... kind of fun. Not fun like "oh I want to do that again!" but fun like "eh. We went fast. No one died."


The rest of the day was spent driving (oh, so much driving) and stimulating Oregon's economy at the outlet stores (Dear J.Crew: I love you. Come to Canada. Kisses, Hillary)

We arrived home at 3am Tuesday morning. And then I died a little because I had to be up for work in 4 short hours and we had no clean laundry and someone (whose name starts with an 'S' and end with a 'hawn') left the bathroom light on before we left and we got home too late to pick up the puppies so I had no one to cuddle with except for Shawn and that wasn't happening (did I mention the atv-ing? on my birthday.) However. The road trip was an awesome experience. I saw places and things I've always wanted to see (and some that I never wanted to see. sand dunes. ahem.) I got to spend many consecutive days with Shawn which is a difficult thing to co-ordinate with our busy schedules. I'm not saying I'm up for another road trip any time soon but I'm not ruling it out in the future. As long as there are no atv's involved.

15 comments:

  1. Chocolate cake on the beach? GIRL. You know how to LIVE.

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  2. wait. they don't have jcrew in canada? THE HUMANITY!!

    also: i am now planning to have chocolate cake on the beach for MY next birthday, because YES.

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  3. Why no J.Crew in Canada?! That is some straight-up bullshit. Especially now that I know we have timbits here.

    LOVE the song from the title of this post, btw.

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  4. Road tripping is really under-rated. You really do discover so much more than you ever would flying in and out. It's not particularly convenient and takes a lot of time, but is so worth it if you can swing it. Glad you had a great time!

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  5. I think I need to go to Bandon. It looks GORGEOUS.

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  6. Ohhh, so pretty! And I would stab someone (just a flesh wound) for some chocolate cake right now!

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  7. Happy belated birthday! Chocolate cake on the beach sounds like the perfect way to start your day... you'll have to make up for the atv-ing with something AWESOME next year!

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  8. chocolate cake on the beach sounds like the perfect birthday. and i'm pretty sure i would have to be bribed to go atving, haha.

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  9. Love the chocolate cake on the beach!! You are a girl of my own heart, let me tell you... =)

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  10. Oregon is SO PRETTY. How did I not know about Bandon?

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  11. Happy late birthday! Except for the atv-ing, it sounds like you had a great birthday. What's not to like about FREE chocolate cake on the beach?

    Your pictures are awesome - I want to vist Bandon now!

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  12. Chocolate cake and a beach!? Perfection.

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  13. I am very, very sorry you don't have J Crew in Canada. They need to open up some stores there.

    Again beautiful pictures! And I don't care what you say but you and Shawn are adorable together!

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  14. Chocolate on the beach? perfection. xo

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  15. You are a good sport for going ATV'ing on your birthday, but suspect the choc cake helped. Happy Belated Birthday!

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