My favorite vacation home is gone. Since I was a little kid my family has been vacationing in Seaside, Oregon. We owned a small fudge shop, called The Portland Fudge Company and would spend our summers on the beach and working at the shop. My parents owned a small condo at the end of the promenade.
As I got older I would go with friends and we would spend the weekends down at the beach getting sun and playing in the water. When I met Adam this condo became our getaway. It was a free place for us to go and have a nice vacation on a cheap budget. It was also the place we spent our first three days of our honeymoon together. 
As we grew as a family this still remained our favorite place to get away. It was also one of the main reasons we stayed in Portland and Adam decided to go to law school at Lewis and Clark, instead of moving to Denver, Colorado.
This is the first place Zachary went on vacation, first place he put his feet in the sand, the first place he felt the ocean water run up on his toes, the first time he tasted fudge, and had his first walk on the promenade with mom and dad.
We have been coming to Seaside every year for the fourth since our first year of marriage. There is no better place to see the fireworks then on the beach with a bonfire. Zachary spent his first fourth here as well.
Adam learned to surf for the first time here, and Zachary tried on the sand! I have loved watching this boy grow up on the beach, play in the sand, swim in the water. I has brought me so much joy to watch him.
My parents sold the condo and signed over the papers a week ago. Adam and i will continue to come to the beach and plan on spending our fourth in Seaside again this year. It will be so much fun to take Wyatt ans watch him have his first experience at the beach, where all us have shared in so many first experiences here.
I know this isn't the end to Seaside, it is just another beginning since there is where my parents plan on retiring in five years. They are already looking for there next place of residence in Seaside. This place is just as special to them as it is to us.
We will miss you little condo on the promenade, thanks for providing such wonderful memories...
