This post is not helping me get back to reality any sooner. I feel like I'm mentally still on a girls weekend getaway. It was SO much fun. The house was amazing. We were really living in a Pottery Barn catalog. We felt torn between never wanting to leave the house and heading out and about. We left my house Friday morning, which turned out to be bad timing with the tsumami warning that was in force on the coast. What are the odds? But we figured we'd risk it. Actually Troy called the Chamber of Commerce in Lincoln City to find out what was going on, and while they had to evacuate early that morning, everything was pretty much back to normal, other than some larger than normal waves. Here's a quick rundown of the weekend:
-Food. I love that my family loves to eat with me!
-The Beach
-Hot tub
-Staying up late watching movies in the ahem, media room :)
-Sleeping in. Or at least trying to. I think my kids have ruined that for me. I admire Carrie's skills.
-Social worker Kate buying food and dog biscuits for the guy we saw in the parking lot with his dog. He was gone when we came out. We then realized it was a bus stop and perhaps we was waiting for the bus. We tried to find more homeless people with dogs but to no avail. So my family was the recipient of Kate's gifts. Although ironically yesterday the dogs escaped and we can't find them and I think they're gone. More on that later.
-Being surrounded by too much seafood. Only Kate understands. We had steak while everyone else ate that stinky stuff.
-Shopping at the outlets and finally finding a coat I like AND a price I like!
-Pastries
-Birthday Party!!
-Explaining to Carrie who Jimmer is. Sigh. And watching the BYU game
-Dying my hair (thanks mom)
-Walks in the rain
-Mom making sure we weren't turning our backs to the ocean. Thanks mom :)
-Locking the car in the garage. Glad that didn't turn into a disaster
-Lots of laughing (the best part!)
I know the above shot isn't the best, but wasn't it so fun to pig out at 2 am? Really it was 1am, but daylight savings was in effect. Which really made me mad. I lost an hour I could've had! We felt like we HAD to eat the ice cream. We were leaving the next morning and couldn't take it with us, so what were we to do?
MY birthday pie. Got it, Carrie?! :)
Gourmet kitchens really are much funner to cook in!
Seals on the beach. I think they have the life. Basking in the sun. But I think not having arms would make me crazy.
Kate HAD to see the Lincoln statue.
Mousse made from the best chocolate. Thanks Carrie. I'll forgive you for the pie incident.
I think we established that the trip wasn't long enough. We need at least 5 days. Hear that husbands? I will say that I don't worry at all when I'm gone. Troy does a great job with the kids. I told him the only things I worry about are the kids eating zero vegetables when I'm gone and their teeth not getting brushed. (they can never seem to remember to do that on their own. You'd think after several YEARS of a routine they'd see a pattern.) But those are just little things compared to keeping the kids alive, which is really all that matters, right?
6 comments:
Great post Brooke! I love the pictures you took- it was such a fun trip.
And just so everyone knows, I do own a bathing suit- just didn't bring it.. so I had to improvise :)
I was just thinking about doing a post, but you captured it. I like the picture with us all on the driftwood. (I'd like a print of it along with the other one I want.) It's so true about seals with no arms! So claustrophobic.
It was fun to see your kids, although it was brief. A trip to remember!
thanks to you guys my mom is starting to plan our first girls trip!!! looks like you guys had fun!
That trip was a ton of fun! I love how we weighed the risk of a tsunami with not going to the coast...and the tsunami lost! Says volumes how much we love our girls' trips! It wasn't my fault about the pie, Brooke, it was much better than I thought it was going to be! So I was unprepared to deal with the exquisete taste of it. And now that I've been enlightened about Jimmer, my BYU pride has swelled a bit and I'm wondering how many baby boys named "Jimmer" will be born this year! Let's start thinking about next year!!!
I love the post Brooke! It was such a great weekend! I don't have the best luck with giving food to homeless men, do I? Although I have to give credit to Emily, it was her idea to buy that guy stuff. I can't believe your dogs ran away!! Are they back yet? It we had taken them on our walk, maybe they wouldn't have left home :) Another one of my favorite things was our walk in the rain.
Hi - I'm a blogstalker friend of Carrie's. I just wanted to say that I love the posts about your girls' weekends - I have five daughters and it gives me something to live through the teenage years for. Thanks!
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