Saturday, April 19, 2014
Tuesday, April 15, 2014
Santa Rosa, Avenue of the Giants, Portland, Seattle (land of the tulips!), and Moses
Hello, friends and family! Yes, it's been awhile, but yes, it's been an amazing and busy few weeks back.
Our time in LA ended (with no car from the auction; have Conan tell you that story sometime), so we headed to Santa Rosa to see Uncle Sean, Aunt Jen, and cousin Brayden (to Sila). This was a great time, and it's good to see cousins grow up together.
We then headed to the Redwoods. It was my first time in the Redwoods, and while I enjoyed it immensely (who doesn't enjoy tall and beautiful trees and raw, pure smells?), I have to say my heart is with the Sequoias. But in all fairness, I need to give the Redwoods another visit.
Our next destination was Portland, OR, and it turned out to be quite a gathering; Big Sila (for whom Sila is named) and Shannon--and their daughter Morgan, Bear and his wife (old friends from Santa Barbara), and Slick--an old friend who we haven't seen in years, and Kellie and her son TJ (again, an old friend from way back). This time reminded me about how much human connection is central to happiness and general feel-goodness. Amazing people make my life more amazing.
Unfortunately, we didn't stay in Portland as long as we liked, for we had to head to Seattle to see more friends (yea!!) and house/pet sit while they went on vacation. We only got to catch up the day before they left, but we'll have more time on the back end to have more of those amazing experiences I speak about the paragraph prior.
Anyway, our main goals here were/are to buy a car (renting is so expensive!), organize all our stuff from the past eight months, make a plan for the next few months, and have some good old-fashioned vacation fun. So far we've done the first and the last, which is great. Today was the zoo, and with the help of a stroller and lots of snacks, we were led to believe that our son maybe wasn't abducted by the crazy land of three-year-olds-who-make-you-want-to-scream-every-second. Today was also finding the car that would become the next Griffin road mobile.
Before I get to that, I do want to mention that Seattle has the most amount of tulips I've ever seen. They are my favorite flower, and they are everywhere. While I would love to have pictures to show you, I only found my camera today and the batteries are dead. So there is always tomorrow.
So Moses. That's the name of our new car. Why Moses? Well when we were at the car auction, there was a box of misc. junk, and a wooden carving of Moses sticking out of the box. Since we were at the auction to buy a car, we saw this carving of Moses to represent finding the car that would deliver us to the promise land (Florida). We didn't buy a car (or the statue) at the auction, but we did gain a theme. The theme was Moses, and we have found her (yes, her). She is a blue VW Passat Wagon, and she is Moses. She is beautiful.
Where to next? I don't know, but talk about Yellowstone is being thrown around. So to everyone out there, I hope life is good, and your face is becoming wrinkled from happiness.
Our time in LA ended (with no car from the auction; have Conan tell you that story sometime), so we headed to Santa Rosa to see Uncle Sean, Aunt Jen, and cousin Brayden (to Sila). This was a great time, and it's good to see cousins grow up together.
We then headed to the Redwoods. It was my first time in the Redwoods, and while I enjoyed it immensely (who doesn't enjoy tall and beautiful trees and raw, pure smells?), I have to say my heart is with the Sequoias. But in all fairness, I need to give the Redwoods another visit.
Our next destination was Portland, OR, and it turned out to be quite a gathering; Big Sila (for whom Sila is named) and Shannon--and their daughter Morgan, Bear and his wife (old friends from Santa Barbara), and Slick--an old friend who we haven't seen in years, and Kellie and her son TJ (again, an old friend from way back). This time reminded me about how much human connection is central to happiness and general feel-goodness. Amazing people make my life more amazing.
Unfortunately, we didn't stay in Portland as long as we liked, for we had to head to Seattle to see more friends (yea!!) and house/pet sit while they went on vacation. We only got to catch up the day before they left, but we'll have more time on the back end to have more of those amazing experiences I speak about the paragraph prior.
Anyway, our main goals here were/are to buy a car (renting is so expensive!), organize all our stuff from the past eight months, make a plan for the next few months, and have some good old-fashioned vacation fun. So far we've done the first and the last, which is great. Today was the zoo, and with the help of a stroller and lots of snacks, we were led to believe that our son maybe wasn't abducted by the crazy land of three-year-olds-who-make-you-want-to-scream-every-second. Today was also finding the car that would become the next Griffin road mobile.
Before I get to that, I do want to mention that Seattle has the most amount of tulips I've ever seen. They are my favorite flower, and they are everywhere. While I would love to have pictures to show you, I only found my camera today and the batteries are dead. So there is always tomorrow.
So Moses. That's the name of our new car. Why Moses? Well when we were at the car auction, there was a box of misc. junk, and a wooden carving of Moses sticking out of the box. Since we were at the auction to buy a car, we saw this carving of Moses to represent finding the car that would deliver us to the promise land (Florida). We didn't buy a car (or the statue) at the auction, but we did gain a theme. The theme was Moses, and we have found her (yes, her). She is a blue VW Passat Wagon, and she is Moses. She is beautiful.
Where to next? I don't know, but talk about Yellowstone is being thrown around. So to everyone out there, I hope life is good, and your face is becoming wrinkled from happiness.
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