Astoria Trip

On Wednesday July 14th, Jesse and I went to Astoria for our day trip.  Our first stop was Fort Clatsop.  It's where Lewis and Clark settled for the winter on there long journey. 

Our next stop was Astoria.  We decided to Climb all 170 steps of the Astoria Column.

170 steps up.

The Astoria Column

This is the view from the top.  

We drove across that huge bridge and went over to Fort Columbia next.  It's the fort that played a pivotal role in protecting the west coast during the WWII.  Fort Stevens was the other fort which is more famous, but we didn't go there.  This is one of the batteries that is at the Fort.  

And this is one of the giant cannons that were used to defend the Fort. 

After a day of lots of walking and hiking, we were hungry and wanted to see more of Astoria so we headed back over the river.  After eating we decided to take a trolley ride on the Historic Astoria Trolley.

Then before leaving town we just had to due the touristy things and see two of Astoria's most famous places.  The first was the house where the Goonies was filmed.  

And the second was the elementary school where Kindergarten Cop was filmed. 

We had so much fun and actually learned a few things about Oregon's history.