Astoria....Australia?

It was spring break for the kids last week, so we spent four days on the Oregon coast in Astoria. We had a great time, even though the weather wasn't exactly cooperative. The kids had a blast and Cameron kept calling Astoria, Australia. As usual, all the kids really need for a successful trip is a swimming pool and pastries for breakfast and they were winners on both fronts. We did a ton of other things as well and had a really fun trip. There are actually a lot of movies that have been filmed in Astoria (The Goonies, Kindergarten Cop, Free Willy to name a few) so we also took in some of the famous sites of the city. We saw the bowling alley from the Goonies movie, the county jail (including the actual jeep with "bullet holes") and several of the houses featured in the movie. Brian and I answered a million questions from the kids about The Goonies since they've never seen it, but by the end of the trip they acted like experts and declared everything that they saw as "the Goonies house."