Mother's Day at the coast

Saturday morning I headed up to Astoria. It was a pleasant drive. Slight drizzle going over the mountains, but otherwise dry. I arrived just in time for things to start for the Driver's school.

Our site was the Astoria Coast Guard air station. Nice site for a driver's school. The decommissioned runway was long and wide enough to have 2 things going on at a time. Got off to a bit of a slow start, but things picked up and the sun came out. The kids really seemed to enjoy themselves. My student was very excited and enthusiastic. She started off tentatively, but once we got going, she did great. Once again, the Astoria club put together a very nice school for the kids.

Saturday evening, Julie and the boys came over after a day of baseball practice and a game. We met up with some friends for dinner and proceeded up to Long Beach, WA for some fun at the go-cart track. There were around 30 of us that showed up, and the racing was a blast. I noticed that they had a 'jr' track around back and took the boys over there for a run. They are 11, 9, and soon to be 7, and had so much fun I didn't think I'd get them out of there.

Each of the adults got to take 3 5 minute sessions in the faster carts. Wow, but that is a blast. 15 of us going head to head. Quite a bit of bumping going on there.

Sunday, we all slept in and had a liesurely morning hanging out at the hotel, watching cartoons, eating breakfast, and playing in the pool. Around 11 we checked out and headed up to Ilwaco for the Autocross. Weather was beautiful, 70's and sunny. The boys had fun playing and taking pictures with the digital camera. Morgan helped get the cars ready to race and helped me swap race tires onto the Fiat. He's really growing up and can't wait until he's 16 and can get his license and participate. We were in the last run group and started just as the rain came in. It was a great course, and we had a lot of fun.. Slicker than snot makes for an interesting race. Julie was the fastest Mom, won her class, and got the fastest Mom award and a dozen roses!

Afterwards, we caravaned back to with 7 of our fellow club members and stopped at Camp 18 for dinner. WOW, but that was a lot of food!

Ended up getting home around 11pm and hitting the bed hard.

All in all, a great weekend.