GOONIES NEVER SAY DIE!

Destination: Astoria, OR

Did you know that like 1,479 (give or take a few) popular movie were filmed in Astoria? Seriously. Free Willy, Kindergarten Cop, Short Circuit, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III, and The Shining just to name a few. But the most popular one in my book is Goonies! So here is my Goonies Astoria tour.

The opening scene where Mama Fratelli and Frances break Jake out of jail.

Full of fun things to do and memorabilia:

[Chunk glued the statue's penis on upside-down] 

Chunk: How's this? 
Mikey: Oh, you idiot! You glued it on upside-down! 
Brandon Walsh: If God made it that way, you'd all be pissing in your faces! 
Chunk: Looks fine to me.

 Data's gear

 Sloth love Chunk!

Ruth! Ruth! Baby! Ruth!

Mikey's dad's museum

Data's house

Mikey's house

I might have done the truffle shuffle by the gate

 And finally haystack rock (which is actually in Cannon Beach not Astoria)

"Bye, Willy. Thanks."

NEWPORT (not sure what happened to oldport)

DESTINATION: Newport, OR

On the way from Seaside to Newport, there are lots of fun stops.

 Like in Tillamook at the cheese factory

 It ain't easy being cheesy.

 Next, we stopped to catch some nature at Otter Rock, but found out the Otters have moved away. Instead we saw this bird working on his CRANE technique

 We were all thirsty, but discovered Devil's Punchbowl isn't a full service rest stop.

 And almost got blown away at Cape Foulweather lookout point 

(obviously appropriately named by according to the photo with hair flying everywhere)

 But the wind and rain stopped for a few minutes and we go this beautiful view

Finally, we reached Newport where we hung out at the Yaquina Lighthouse

and hung out with the seals.

We then headed to the Oregon Coast Aquarium

 This aquarium is super cool because it has indoor and outdoor tanks to check out.

 So it seems more natural for the animals (at least from this human's perspective)

This underwater shark tunnel FREAKS me out (thanks JAWS movies!)

 Our final stop was for some amazing seafood at Local Ocean

 and an enjoyable stroll in town to hear the sea lions on the rocks.

We made it to the SEASIDE

Destination: Seaside, OR

Our home base for the trip is right here at the resort in Seaside, Oregon.

We are staying right on the boardwalk

apparently the end of the Lewis & Clark trail

 This is happiness in a photo for me

My mom showing off her shells!

 The historic Seaside Aquarium was just a short walk from our resort

 Super fun Aquarium for how small it is. We got to feed seals.

It was a super treat.

 The lady taking the photo told us to pose like we were swimming with the shark.

Apparently, I'm the only one who did it.

So we tried again. Fail #2.

The world's fastest and therefore scariest carousel

(I saw several child depart in tears).

PORTLANDia

Who visits the Oregon coast in October? This girl (along with the parentals and a pal)!

And who makes a stop in Portland on their way to the coast? This girl!

My must-see place was Voodoo Donuts. We braved the line...and the price for a dozen of these beauties. Besides the maple bar with bacon, my fave was the cap'n crunch cereal donut (not pictured).

Next stop was Powell's City of Books. This is probably the most awesomely big book stores I've ever been to. They give maps out so don't get lost.

(No, that's not a hobo holding the plastic bag...that's me. It was cold so I threw on everything I had.)

Chinatown

A special stop at the 24 Church of Elvis for the Mom

The 24 HOUR CHURCH OF ELVIS in Portland, Ore., is not a church. It does not have much to do with Elvis. It's not even open 24 hours. Confused? You're not alone...

 I think I just got married by an electronic Elvis voice.

 Portland is definitely doing it's job to keep it weird.