missionary letters: 8.16.15 part 2

The letter that never got sent..

This week was so much fun and we did so many things. But with Melissa and Chaz getting engaged.. that was the top story!

One of the things we did was go to Ocean Shores and spend the night! It was such a fun weekend! Friday, I babysat until 1. We wanted to leave to go to the beach dance by 2. That day it was pouring rain. It hasn't rained in months and it was thunder and lightning and raining buckets! I was a little worried about going to the beach with it being so nasty out, but the weather report said that it should be clearing up by 4 at the beach. (just in time for the dance, lots of youth and leaders must of been praying :) )

Around 1:15, I said, let's pack a bag, in case we spend the night at the beach.. if there is anything available. I don't think we have ever done something that spur of the moment before, but it was fun to do.

Around 1:30 is when Chaz called Ray and asked for our blessing to marry Melissa! So, it was a little crazy getting ready and going to the dance/beach. And he hadn't got her plane ticket yet!

So we drove to Ocean Shores with all this wedding talk!
We got to Ocean Shores, dropped Keagan off and started looking for a hotel.

2 weeks earlier, I had looked into some hotels in Ocean Shores and they were all booked or over $200! I was hoping because of the weather that there might be some cancelations.

The first one we checked, over $200. We drove through town and kept seeing No vacancy. Then we pulled into the hotel by the shark in Ocean Shores. (sorry, I can't remember the name of it) And it had a 2 queen bed room. And a partial Ocean view.

One of the other reasons we wanted to have some place to stay was that the first pre-season game of the Seahawks was playing.
We went across the street from our hotel and had pizza and watched part of the game on the big screen t.v.

A little while before the dance got over we went out to the beach and saw the sunset. It was a little cold, but nice out.

The next morning we had an awesome breakfast! The hotel had everything you could think of for breakfast! Sausage, eggs, bacon, biscuits and gravy, fruit, yogurt, you name it.

When we finally checked out, the shark was right next to our car. We couldn't believe what we were seeing! All these people gathered in their Seahawk gear and cheering for the Seahawks. Marshawn Lynch's mom was there and the trophy. We later found out that it was fan fest in Ocean Shores. Perfect day to be there!

The video of the fans!

All the little shops had Seahawks stuff. And the green area had little pop ups and little stands selling things like a fair. So much Seahawk stuff. So fun! There were fun activities to do and lots of Seahawks vehicles!

One of the cute little shops cracked me up, only in small town can you put up a sign in your shop, saying, "Family emergency, closed until further notice."