Road Schooling - Day 2 - 3/16/20

We spent the morning doing lessons.  I worked with Jakob and Angela helped Katie.  It's actually rather fun but certainly time consuming.  We then headed to the office to check in.  Parked at the office we discovered we had cell service.  We learned that all Washington state bars and restaurants have to close except for takeout service and the group size ban was reduced to 50 persons from 250.  In King County the limit was reduced to zero.

We gassed up at the Texaco in Oceanside before going to the market in Long Beach which adjoins Oceanside.  Like stores everywhere toilet paper was in short supply as were paper towels and hand sanitizer and denatured alcohol were nonexistent.  We headed up the main drag to the Ace Hardware store where I bought a bucket, car soap and a cleaning cloth.  I need to wash the truck and now is a good time to do it.

On the way back to camp we stopped at McD's for a shamrock shake and cheeseburgers all around.  We stopped by local museum but it's closed until further notice.  After entering the park, we stopped at the Beard's Hollow overlook which looks out on the treacherous Columbia River Bar.  In 1873 3 ships grounded in this area.

We progressed further into the park and stopped at the North Cape Lighthouse and walked out past the keeper's house, which can be rented, to the Lighthouse.  It was blustery but there were nice views.  The kids practiced reading the interpretive signs and learned history in the process.

Back at camp the kids worked on lessons, Angela wrote up their lesson plans she received earlier from their teachers, and I washed the truck.  While eating dinner we watched news coverage.  We wrapped up the evening watching American Idol.  It's certainly different having television access but glad we can sort of keep up to date with news & have some entertainment.

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