We had the opportunity to take a short vacation to a small beach community, Seabrook. It's located on the coast, about 2 hours west of Olympia, near Aberdeen/Hoquium.
Seabrook is a new community of beach houses. They're very cute and quaint! They look small from the outside, but they're very modern and big on the inside! This is main house; 2 bedrooms and 2.5 baths. It also has a side mudroom and outside shower, which came in handy later!
Garrett, Cade and I stayed in the carriage house next door! It was a little one bedroom, 1 bathroom, with a small kitchen and living room. 
The house allowed pets and was baby friendly! We didn't have to bring any furniture for Cade!Cade had fun all weekend playing with his friend, Roxy. They played with the plastic bottle together for at least a hour one night!
One of the main reasons to take this short vacation was to try out clamming! Notice, the sky isn't as blue and the sand isn't as tan as Hawaii! It was a cold morning!
We were not very optimistic that we would be successful. There's a 15 clam limit per license, and we didn't think we'd find anywhere near that limit. We also thought 15 was a small amount to eat! 
So we starting digging...
and digging...
until finally we found one! Once we were able to recognize the air bubbles in the sand and that we had to dig REALLY deep, we were very successful!
I even tried my hand at it and found a few
The only one who probably wished they stayed back in the warmth of the house was Sport. He was not a happy camper that he had to walk through water as the tide started to quickly come up!
YAH! Clam diggers! 
Our clams and a few sand dollars! We estimated we found about 40 clams (estimate because some of the clams broke as we dug for them)
The next step was to wash off the sand. This is where the outdoor shower with warm water came in handy!
Then we had to take off the shells! Trisha and I formed a successful clam-shelling assembly line.
Almost cleaned clams! We still had to dissect them, oh, I mean cut out the gills and guts. Fun! (Yes, for a biology teacher, it is! :)
Sunday was a much sunnier day, so we took a stroll on the beach again.
Cade and Daddy
Successful weekend getaway with fantastic friends!
Our clams and a few sand dollars! We estimated we found about 40 clams (estimate because some of the clams broke as we dug for them)The next step was to wash off the sand. This is where the outdoor shower with warm water came in handy! Then we had to take off the shells! Trisha and I formed a successful clam-shelling assembly line. Almost cleaned clams! We still had to dissect them, oh, I mean cut out the gills and guts. Fun! (Yes, for a biology teacher, it is! :)Sunday was a much sunnier day, so we took a stroll on the beach again. Cade and DaddySuccessful weekend getaway with fantastic friends! 