Day 22 - Ocean Shores, WA - 2839 Miles

We're still here. I'm starting to run into a wall here. We've settled into a routine which makes for very pleasant days but very little that anyone would find interesting to read about. If I don't tell what happened, you can assume the day went something like this:

Get up and laze around a little bit. Take our 2.2 mile walk of about a mile down the beach and a mile back across the front of the hotels. Eat breakfast. Laze around a little bit. Walk to one of four or five coffee shops for coffee and to split a muffin or cookie. Laze around a while. Walk to one of 15-20 bars/restaurants for happy hour/dinner. Laze around. Go to bed.

Add to that a collection of activities sprinkled in at random like going to the casino, watching sunset on the beach, wandering parks and small communities up and down the coast, and the various events small towns host during all too brief summers.

One such event was the Flag Day parade last weekend in Ocean Shores. It claims to be the largest Flag Day parade on the west coast. I was really impressed until I saw that only two communities in the state of Washington have these parades. The competition may not really be that intense.

Our Ramada Inn's Float

One of the top billed participants on the flyers was Matilda the camel. I felt kind of bad for some of the school marching bands who practiced all year to end up receiving less attention than Matilda the camel.

I had my beer at Waves Bar and Restaurant. One more scratched off the list.