These pictures are from the past week that my lover boy and I spent in Astoria, Oregon, with my family for Thanksgiving.  Part 1 is here.

One day we drove 10 miles to Seaside which is like Laguna Beach: a cute little touristy beach town that is kinda dead in the winter.  There is one difference though.  Seaside has a massive love affair with candy, salt water taffy, and fudge, and sells a butt ton of it.  People in Laguna Beach are way too health conscious for that; their big seller is probably wheat grass smoothies or soy popsicles.

I swear every other store on the boardwalk was a candy store.  I obviously thought I was in some level of heaven (I’m not a Mormon and don’t seriously believe in levels of heaven; I’m with the big JC) because I love candy and anything that will rot my pearly whites faster.

A massive fudge log that I bet went as a turd for Halloween.

Jay is happy because he IS a kid in a candy store.  We ended up buying some spicy cinnamon bears and a couple truffles which complemented our lunch of burgers and fries perfectly.

Supposedly this is the world’s largest gummi bear weighing in at 4 lbs.  Player,  please.  I could eat a 4 lb gummi bear for breakfast. 

We went to Sam’s Seaside Cafe for lunch.  Mostly because my nickname is Sam.  But I also respond to Killer and Turd Log.

This probably shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone but Seaside is by the sea.

So we had to go see it.  See the sea in Seaside, haha.  im funny. not.

I think these fine ‘gents are Lewis and Clark, the explorers whose expedition laid much of the groundwork for the Westward Expansion of the United States.  You didn’t know I was such a history buff, did you?

 Ok, I completely copied all of that from Wikipedia.

My own explorer… of shopping malls and discount stores.

After getting our fill of historical smartness, we hit up the arcade.   Because where else would 2 grown adults hopped up on sugar go?

Kickin’ it old school with the NBA JAM game.  Jay is nearly 9 years older than me so he was probably playing this game back in the day trying to impress all the ladies while I was still in diapers.  But as I like to remind him, he’ll be the next in diapers.  adult ones.

A new game, instead of playing the race car game, is to take pictures of yourself.  Bonus points if it’s somewhere socially awkward.  like the little boys room.

We are winners after all!!!

On to the big Turkey day…

My one thanksgiving shot.  Notice there is no food and an abundance of ugly chairs.  I can say that because when my parents bought the condo, it was already fully furnished and decorated in a Chinese/Oriental style, which in this case, is not cute.  My mom would like to redo it in a beach cottage style eventually.

My little brother Matti and his girlfriend Marlie holding our dog Marni. that’s M cubed.

Matti has a miniature weiner dog named Nancy who weighs 7 lbs.  Her and Marni fight and go at it like they’re castmembers on the Real Housewives of Orange County.

The finale, part 3, will be next so don’t be a weiner and miss it!