Feeling envious of all our friends' August travels & vacation, we decided to head to the WA coast for a day.  I've been hearing about Seabrook, WA for some time now.  They were advertising heavily pre-real estate bust and I think their website is one of the nicest around (www.seabrookwa.com).  The community is essentially a real-life Pottery Barn catalog...so I had to find out what was real vs. vaporware. 

 

It takes about 2.5 hours to get there and during the trip, Logan kept asking "are we there"?  (Great...it starts) Towards the coast the area reminds us of the North Carolina coast - cities like Nags Head and Kill Devil Hills - rural and a little red-necky.  But Seabrook is great.  We had a nice lunch and then spent a few hours at the beach.  Needless to say, the kids slept hard on the way home.