Oregon holiday, days1-3

So it's taken a bit of time, but the Oregon holiday photos are edited.
As there are almost 200 (don't worry, I'll do so massive narrowing down), I thought I'd divide the posts into smaller blocks.
So here are the first few days.

Day one is a travel day, we have a great flight to Seattle and happily have a smooth entry into the USA.  We pick up the rental car, a Nissan Versa, and head South.
We make it about halfway down the State to Centralia and the jetleg catches up with us and we decide to call it a night.  This is the first night we come across a common phenomenon in the NW- European style hotels... ie: shared bathrooms.  Now, I stay in a lot of hotels in Europe, and not ONCE have I had to share a bathroom, so the "European Style" confuses us some.   We decide we are not backpacking and we want our own bathroom, so head to the nearest motel.

Day Two.
We have a nice breakfast and hit the outlet shops of  Centralia and Wal Mart, that's supplies for the holiday sorted and we're Oregon bound.
Our first stop is Astoria, were we climb the famous 162 steps and take in the view.
We head down the coast and decide to stay in the beautiful town of Canon Beach.
We stay at the Sea Sprite on the Estuary, a beautiful condo right on the beach.  Only one thing to do, go for a walk with the camera.  What starts as a nice walks turns into a bumbling disaster, we somehow end up between the ocean and the estuary, and decide it will be easy for us to cross if I jump on Nicks back (with my camera) and he jumps across.  I really don't need to spell it out do I?  Nick and I end up soaked from head to toe... thank goodness I did all I could to save the camera.  We head back to the condo and dry ourselves off, then head into town for a gorgeous pizza at Pizza A' Fetta accompanied with a few glasses of wine.

Day Three.
I'm up early so I head out to the beach with my camera and tripod.  I want to get a few nice shots of the famous Haystack Rock of Canon beach.  As is the norm for this time of year in Oregon, it's quite misty, so I'm glad to have my tripod with me.

Another walk into town to get my fix of pancakes.  Fully sated we decide it's time to start hiking.  We head just North of Canon to the Ecola State Park.  We buy a 5-day park pass from the fattest Lab I've ever seen, and head out on the Indian Head Trail.

 It's a two mile hike through forrest and along ocean front cliff tops.  We have a ten minute rest on the beach at the end of the trail and head back to the car.  This is what this holiday is all about.
We continue South to Cape Look Out on the Three Cape Scenic route and hike the 2.4 miles to the end of the Cape.

After near nine miles of hiking, were ready for food, beer and a bed.  We find a hotel with a restaurant that serves good burgers and beer... we're happy.