I went to the Oregon coast with our home school group (the Taylors, Hofens, Applegarths, and us Vaughns) and, I also went to the Tillamook cheese factory! we even managed to camp in a yurt, but somehow I survived the climb up the stairs in the Astoria Column, and we also decided to go to Fort Clatsop.

Camping in a yurt was beyond awesome. it is better than camping in a tent because in a tent it gets to cold. You don't even have to set up a yurt! inside a yurt it has a really cool bunk bed. The yurt even has this thing called a futon which my sister calls a crouton.
The Astoria Column has 164 stairs. I climbed up those stairs 3 times and went down 3 times witch would mean I climbed 984 stairs! I even got my picture taken of myself standing about half way in the middle of the column. I bet you would want to come if I told you it was an awesome view. When I was standing at the top everyone looks like really small bugs! All those cool places made me feel great. I sure will always wish to go back someday. I think we all had a very good time.