Ocean Shores Report
Monday, April 7th, 2008WA I assisted by WA II hosted a run to Ocean Shores this past weekend.
We left Langley at 7am, took the Port Townsend ferry from Keystone near Oak Harbour and travelled down the inside of the Olympic Peninsula arriving in Ocean Shores around 3pm.
The host hotel was the Best Western Lighthouse Inn, a 2 minute walk from the beach. We all had ocean view rooms for the weekend.
The beach is long and flat, and at this time of the year vehicles are still allowed to drive up and down the beach.
In spite of the cool damp weather, a number of us did enjoy a walk on the beach. It was great to just stand and watch the surf come in. Open water to Japan.
From 10am to 2pm you can also ride horses on the beach ($20 hr) or rent scooters downtown to ride on the beach.
Back again next year.
Due to weather conditions almost everyone showed up in a cage. There were 4 chapters represented (WA I, WA II, WA VI and BC I) BC I - Milt & Maxine, Anna.
We started off Friday afternoon in hotel lounge sampling different brews for Happy Hour and moved to the dining room for dinner. 21 people at dinner.
After dinner, some took the shuttle to the casino and some went to sample more brews at the Galway Bay Pub in beautiful downtown Ocean Shores.
Saturday am was breakfast on your own then relax, walk on the beach and get ready for the potluck at Al & Penny Loudon’s (Pres WA II). Al & Penny have a beautiful home 2 1/2 miles south of the Best Western in Ocean Shores.
The potluck started at 1pm and the party lasted until about 9pm…….we aren’t as young as we used to be. There were about 27 there for the potluck and more food than you could eat in one sitting.
Around 7pm there were still about 20 at the house, some left to go back to the casino, and some stayed to play LRC. If you don’t know what LRC is you’ll have to come to the next BK getaway to find out. Cindi Tangborn won $27. Then we played 20,000. Nobody won any money but Penny won the game. All I will tell you is that it is played with 6 dice.
Sunday am a few of us met for breakfast and then visited the lighthouse tower in the hotel. They have high power binoculars set up in the tower.
Goodbyes were said and we left for home via I-5 and 405 arriving home shortly after 5.