July 29, 2010, Thursday NEWPORT CITY, OR

Just to get this out of the way, Mike played golf this a.m. Yeah! He’s been wanting to for so long, but it hasn’t worked out, but it did today and he really enjoyed it! OK now this is funny. We had an appointment for the dog to be groomed today. We’ve been trying to get it done for weeks now and we actually found a groomer that had an opening. The appointment was for 1 p.m. So we figure we can make it up to Lincoln City about 25 miles up the coast. We thought we would look around and then head back down and that’s one less town to stop in on our way up the coast. That way when we move tomorrow, we can drive an exhausting 60 miles instead of 25. So we drive up the coast, we’re all talking and so forth, not paying much attention, and we come to the town (we have no map with us) and we pull over. Lots of beautiful views, cute shops, art, etc. We take pics and browse in some of the stores and have a great time. The picture here is across the street from the shops looking at the cliffs to the north. I look up at this one store front and notice that it says Depot Bay. It suddenly hits me that we are not in Lincoln City, but in some small town before you get to Lincoln City. Oh brother! We were cracking up, because we never even paid attention to where we were, we just assumed it was Lincoln City. We're such digbats! Actually, we’re really glad we weren’t paying attention ‘cause we loved this little town! Tomorrow when we pass by this way there will be no place big enough to pull over with the trailer and we would have missed this cute town.