astoria trip...

yesterday, alyssa, erin and i went to astoria to hang out... i had never been (neither had erin), so off we went to see the goonies house, the school from kindergarten cop and the town where much of short circuit, the ring and the ring two were filmed... along with a few other box office hits such as free willy and free willy 2 and teenage mutant ninja turtles 3...

this picture is of me and alyssa at the goonies house... they were having a yard sale, but we didn't get there until 6:15, so no one was out to sell anything... we wanted to buy something from the goonie house SO BAD!!! instead we bought a cold pop for $1 a piece... they were selling it outside... (pictures below...)

then we went to astoria tower - after climbing 164 stairs up this tower, you can see for miles... it's wonderful... it was crazy going down... evidently alyssa and erin have problems going down stairs...

then we ate at the world famous plaza jalisco (pronounced ha lease ko, we asked after trying to figure it out for way longer than we should have... but i was right)... and it's not really world famous... we couldn't figure out why there are so many mexican restaurants in astoria and we figured we spent so much time trying to figure out how to say the name of it, we owed it to them to eat there...

then we headed home... it was a fun little outing for the day... and i'll take the credit, because it was totally my idea... i had just never been to astoria and alyssa and erin were totally fun to go with, aside from the fact that erin hasn't seen goonies and it just didn't have the same effect for her...

oh - and on the way, there was this random horse on the side of the road... (pictures below...)

so yea for a fun random road trip!!!