Back to the Grind

What I did on my 12 glorious days of vacation:

Cooked prime rib with my Mom

Had a slumber party with my siblings and husband on my Mom's living room floor

Played lots of Super Mario

Read Jamie's Italy cover to cover

Went to Portland with Mr. P to see his family

Went to Nutcracker on Christmas Eve

Had Crab Louis for the 1st time

Watched approximately 15 episodes of friends with my sister-in-law

Got new perfectly lovely riding boots

Roasted Chestnuts on an open fire (I am actually serious)

Read little woman for the 5th or 6th time

Watched the entire 1st and second season of Dawson's Creek

Stayed up until 2-3am watching said Dawson's Creek

Slept in

What I did not do on my vacation:

Find the perfect skinny jeans

Clean my house

do any of the ironing out of of the giant ironing basket

organize my files

mend my sweater

think about work

exercise

grocery shop


Needless to say it was a glorious vacation. But now I'm back to reality so to speak. I had to wake up at *gasp* 8am this morning and it was painful. So I'm slowly returning to normal. However Mr. P is still in Portland (he stayed to do legal work and will be gone a few more weeks) and so there may still be some late nights of Dawson's Creek in the cards for me. Hope every one's return to the real world is going okay.

We're going to San Francisco...

In only a matter of hours now Mr. P, Jess, our brother Sean and I are all off to San Francisco! We are suffering through a major heat wave here in the Pacific North West. Yesterday the high was 106 and today it's 105 right now. The forecast for San Francisco is a beautifully refreshing 60 for the whole weekend. Because of the heat wave we are going to leave at 4am in an effort to make through the high temperatures before noon. We are going to Santa Cruz first where we will spend the afternoon swimming and eating gelatto on the boardwalk. Then we will go to San Jose to meet our friend David. We're staying Thursday night with David and then Friday morning Sean, Jess and I are going into San Francisco for the weekend. Mr. P is going to stay with David because he is still on crutches and can't walk all over the city as we intend to.

It is going to be such a blast I can't wait. We're going to City Lights Bookstore the famous hang out to the beat poets. We will wander through china town, go to the Pier 39 at the Fisherman's wharf, wander through the Italian district where there will be more gelatto. Then Saturday night Mr. P and David are coming into the city to take us out to Tapas and a bar on the 39th story of a building! I will take lots of pictures and share them soon. Until then happy weekend everyone.

Mrs. P