Busy Bee

In 23 days I have been home for 9 nights. One of those was unscheduled too. I should've been in Montana, but we broke our plane and had to come back to Portland. In those 23 days I have only been home for a whole day (2 nights in a row) 3 times. I have a lot of laundry to do... And I counted the next 3 days of work in that count. I only have one day off this week, so I don't have much time to get anything done. And this weekend I have to take off again! So where have I been!? Well let me tell you!

First of all, work, of course. But I had vacation last week, and I had many places to go! I went to my parents house straight from work for a couple of days to visit them and some friends there. Then I came home for a couple nights then off to South Carolina for Tasha's wedding!

I kind of felt like going to SC by myself would be really grown up of me. Forget the fact that I live 150 miles from my parents, pay my own bills, and work...taking a trip makes me grown up! haha! I flew out by myself, arriving Wednesday. I spent Wednesday mostly on my own. I had to take care of the hotel and car and entertaining myself and finding my own way around. Suzie arrived Thursday. We went to the beach, did some shopping, went to the "rehearsal" dinner and of course wedding. The reception was really fun! Here are Tasha and Isaiah jumping their broom!

I have never been to the east coast before, the furthest east I had been previously was Oklahoma. It's different than the Northwest for sure, but not so different that you feel you're in another country or anything. It's nice to experience differences. But it was so hot and humid that I'm sure I could never live there! Here is me standing in the Atlantic for the first time at believe it or not: sunrise. A disappointing and uneventful one. It was kinda hazy the whole time.

Flying standby, it took me a long time to get home. I got stuck in Charlotte for 8 hours. Everything was oversold! Finally, I told them I didn't care what city I got to, so I ended up flying into San Francisco and then getting on Alaska to get home. I was up for 23 hours! Yuck.

After that I spent 1 day at home and then flew back to San Francisco to spend 1 night there with Anna. She was there for a conference and stayed an extra day. So of course I would go down to hang out! We stayed in a hostel (by a bunch of strip joints), and went to the Japanese Tea Garden at Golden Gate Park, down to the wharf for a chili sourdough bread bowl (heaven!), and to H&M (though I didn't find anything there, sad!!!). We walked through Little Italy, China Town, and up to Telegraph Hill. We have San Francisco's public transportation down! I think I took more buses there than I have anywhere!

Then it was home for a night and back to work, now I'm on my one day off before going back to work again....and then sometime this weekend back to Seattle for a reception and possibly a family reunion. Sheesh. I am such a jetsetter. I know everyone is super jealous of my life.....