The Squatch Chronicles: It's been awhile Part I

I've been a bad dog I know. But I haven't gotten much time to post lately, I'm in Washington now ya know. That means a lot of times outdoors and enjoying the fresh NON-polluted air. I even got to go to Downtown Portland and have a homeless guy point laugh at me! I know it's because I'm sexy so I didn't take any offense, it was pretty sweet. But as a general update in life, I now live in this mega-huge apartment. But there's no acreage :( I don't have any ducks to chase. There IS a cool park however, right across the street that I like to play in. The common backyard is just too...common for me. I don't like touching that grass. It's gross. The best part about this place is that I get to live with my lover, Ian, for now. I have to share him now and again with his girlfriend Lacey, but that's okay because she feeds me a ton! I got to go swimming a lot this year at the Columbia River, the Washougal River, and a couple of beaches on the Oregon Coast! We checked out Multnomah Falls, Cannon Beach, Seaside, and Del Ray State Park. Here are some studly pictures of me on those trips.

Here I am with my lover and Tadd. No, Tadd's not trying to be a pirate. He got uber sick on the trip from hell over. Idiot decided not to use air-conditioning the whole way in order to save gas, ended up with one hell of a sun burn on his left arm (do you have any idea how retarded one looks when only one LIMB is tanned? It's worse than a farmer's tan!) and heat stroke. Which then turned into Bell's Palsy and half of his face fell off. Okay well it didn't actually FALL off, but it sure looked like it was going to slide right on off his skull! I'm showing off my ass for you guys here. Check out my ripped studly buns!

Now here's Mom and me! We were stopping to take a break on the way up. Mom's kinda gross and sweaty looking here, kinda interferes with my awesomeness. But such is life. That's okay, I love here anyway. Sorta.

Then Tadd, Mom, and I did the Saddle Mountain Hike and checked out Cannon Beach and camped at Del Ray State Park. Let me tell you what....That hike SUCKED! My fanny hurt like no other. Here I am telling Mom to screw off and stop taking my picture, I'm taking a break!

BUT it got better! We got to check out the OCEAN

. I've never been to an ocean before! We went to Cannon Beach first. I got to check out the waves and roll in the sand. That's Haystack Rock in the background there.

Cannon Beach was cool and all, but the real gem of this trip was Del Ray State Park. I got to go for a car ride ON the beach. Major coolness dude! Here I am getting a little air time with Tadd. But let me tell you what. After that hike up Saddle Mountain, the last thing I should've been doing was running around and jumping everywhere. I should've kept my butt firmly planted in the sand! I did for most of the night after that.

After a good night's sleep, I felt much better. I even felt good enough to chase PELICANS the next morning. What the hell are those things anyway? They look like giant gargoyles that fly or something. Who ever knew birds could get so big? Geez Louise.