This year for New Years, we spent the holiday on the Oregon Coast at Cannon Beach with a group of friends. We flew in from Kansas City on December 30 and pretty much drove straight to Oregon. It made for quite an interesting (and long) day as we were up at 3am west coast time to catch our flight out of Kansas City. We made it safe and sound to Oregon, though, even though we traversed through some snow on the way there... hey, at least it kept us entertained and awake!
We spent the first evening hanging out with friends and then crashing hard into bed.
The next morning, New Year's eve, we went on an early morning beach walk. It was actually not too cold out. The Oregon coast is beautiful.
Later that evening, we brought in 2012 in style with all of our friends complete with a fabulous group dinner. Sadly, the picture above of our champagne cocktail was the only picture I took of the evening.
The next morning Justin and I got up and decided to go on a New Year's day run along the pacific coast highway. I thought this was a brilliant idea until we started doing it and I felt like I might die. Perhaps I was dehydrated or just tired or maybe it was the fact that it was ALL HILLS, but WOW. We went about 5 miles and I was over it by the time we hobbled back in. Gorgeous views, though!
Later that day we all went out to Cannon beach to play on the beach since it was 65 degrees and sunny (SERIOUSLY, what place are we in?)
We caught a beautiful beginning of a sunset...
...walked along the beach...
and let the dogs run and play while we enjoyed the weather, too.
A shot of us on the beach.
Our friends Rich and Stacie. Love this shot!
And one more sort of awkward kiss picture of us. After playing on the beach we went and had a drink and crab cakes at a local restaurant per the recommendation of Stacie and Rich that these were the best crabcakes around. They were, hands down. I was too busy eating them to even think about taking a picture.
Later that night, we all hung out some more for our last night...
Jen and Alex made an AMAZING last night dinner of pork and mashed potatoes. After we were sufficiently stuffed and had been drinking the better part of the afternoon, the night gets a little blurry. The night ended with a big bonfire on the beach so I'd say all in all, it was a success.
It was a fabulous way to ring in the new year- great location, great friends, wonderful memories. Cheers to 2011 and the amazing things it brought and to the promise of what 2012 holds for all of us!
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