mondays are so hard...

when you are just too tired from all the travel over the weekend! i am struggling to keep myself up and at 'em today.

we got back from washington last night, after a 2 hour delay in seattle. the weather there was gorgeous; apparently there was fog issues in san francisco that prevented us from taking off on time. mike and i agreed that we won't miss traveling in the states. i can't remember the last time that we weren't delayed on one leg of a trip or the other.

friday was a long day of traveling. we left for the airport at 6am, and we finally arrived on whidbey island at 3pm, after partaking in land, air, and sea transportation. it was a little rainy when we got there. we spent the rest of the afternoon and evening eating and playing poker with grandpa. man, he is a ruthless better, and really plays well. not bad for being 98 years old!

i wanted to go running on saturday morning. the distance from mike's parents' house to downtown is about 1.5 miles, so i thought this was a perfect way to start off the day. however, mother nature had different plans. i woke up to the sounds of birdies chirping and raindrops smacking the windows. obviously, being the native californian that i am, i did not bring the appropriate running gear for the rain. in fact, i had the realization that i don't 0wn any rain appropriate workout clothes at all. and i made the mental note to go to sports basement and get some soon! especially, since mike keeps telling me that it rains a lot in wellington!

saturday was great though, b/c sunny and rhonda came to the island for lunch. we went to the mad crab in downtown coupeville. my grilled halibut sandwich was tasty, but not as good as the crab cake burgers that sunny and mike ordered! we had a few minutes to walk down main street and the pier before the girls had to leave to attend their plethora of cinco de mayo festivities.

after lunch, we took grandpa to the swinomish indian casino. it was fun. he was doing pretty well on the lucky lionfish slots. mike and i even got up to 45 bucks, but the idea of winning more landed us with absolutely nothing. we thought grandpa would be tired out from all the excitement of the day, but after dinner and a short nap in the chair, he was ready for more poker at the kitchen table!

sunday we got up, and it was a nice day outside! but no time for running. we had to catch the 10:30am ferry b/c leo and stella were taking grandpa home to tacoma, and we were meeting up with paco and julie for a day in seattle. julie had to work, so paco, mike and i went to the owl 'n thistle for drinks and some lunch. sunny and donovan met up with us for the eats, and all of a sudden it was time to go to the airport.

i had a lovely weekend, and i was excited to get to see sunny again on sunday. i am getting spoiled. i am in the mindset of milking all the experiences and moments that i can with people i care about since we aren't gonna be able to see everyone for such a long time. let's not talk about it, i might get sad.

happy cinco de mayo! i am caught between really wanting to speed up time so we have definite plans for the future, and slowing it down so i can savor these last few months here at home.