Day 3 - Astoria

On our way to Oregon, we snaked over to the coast and visited Long Beach, WA, where we stumbled upon the National Kite Flying Festival (click here for an awesome but very windy video). 

 

We loved the small town of Astoria, OR!  The Norblad Hostel we stayed in was in a historic hotel building and was quite charming!  The top pics are of our room (notice the glass door knob) and the view of downtown and the Columbia River from our window.  The bottom pics are from breakfast at the Blue Scorcher Bakery Cafe and shopping at Vintage Hardware (which had some really cool salvaged stuff).

While we were there, we visited a tower overlooking the city where we had 360 degree views of the Columbia River.  We also rode the historic trolley along the waterfront.  On our way out of town, we made sure to stop at the "Goonies" house (where they filmed the movie) and visited Youngs River Falls.