Vacation Time! Vacation day arrived. My son, Z, and I were traveling to the Oregon Coast for a few days. Now granted, the coast is only about an hour away, but life gets busy and we don’t go as often as we’d like. I had to wake up Z and get him moving, but soon we were off on our adventure. The first stop was Lincoln City where we visited a few video game stores (Z’s passion) and went to The Christmas Cottage for a bit of shopping. The Christmas Cottage is a favorite stop of mine, since I was a little girl. It has everything from nutcrackers to Jim Shore collections to Halloween ornaments to nativity sets. It is an abundance of everything holiday and I love it! Next door is a candy store and we made a quick stop to pick up chocolate covered Oreos and sour patch candies. We did stop at Pig N Pancake and had a wonderful late breakfast and then hit the road to Depoe Bay. Depoe Bay is a charming, small, seaside town that just begs you to stop and dally in their sh
