The trees here are really big, and really pretty. I honestly was thinking about how much it reminded me of Twilight, that vampire movie everyone regrets watching. That was my first thought as we got out of our rental car last night. My second thought was ‘Jesus Christ, I can’t wait to get out of these clothes.’ Y’all know how traveling sucks? Okay, well, imagine all the usual annoying parts of traveling and then add period pants. TMI, I know, but it’s all part of the Human Experience. Plus, it’s important information, because on the second flight after our layover I managed to spill hot coffee directly all over my lap. Like, not on the tray, or on the floor, not really even on my seat or my bags. Just my leggings. And the jeans of the lady next to me (who was actually really sweet about it after I kind of sort of let a tear go because I was tired and cranky and wet and HOT and uncomfortable and nothing that day had gone right except I didn’t want to complain because, hello, vacation).

We ended up flying into the Seattle airport at around 8pm, but considering the 3hr time difference, Amanda and I were exhausted. I kept telling her we were going back in time. In a way, we were. I liked watching the sun start to set as we were as we took that second flight out of Denver. And then I liked to watch as we chased it down to the West Coast. Somehow, 2 hours later, the sun was still showing her gold and orange tones. God, I love the sky.

The second day was absolutely amazing, in so many ways. It was heavy and light; it was important and memorable, but beautiful and easy. But here’s the thing. I’m exhausted. These days have been so fun, but then I’m too tired to write to entertain because I just want to watch TV. So, instead, I’m going to make a list of general notes that I will probably use tomorrow to help guide my thoughts and put my stories together, but in the meantime I can leave you with these random gaps in my stories and maybe it can be fun to figure out. Either way, I thought the out-of-context notes were very funny.

P.S Pictures are coming!!! I have so many really great ones, I can’t wait to remember forever these times. Thanks for making it this far with me, by the way!!

day 1
-breakfast (beautiful white leaves tree, feeding squirrels)
-lunch/pie greenwood farm (if you want to have fun just follow us without arguing)
-garden (baby bunny, canada gueese)
-thrift store (jacket)
-deception pass (talk) 2hrs, yoga, accountability, love love love i wont give up neither will you
-love on top the whole ride home
-casino, rewards, $10 food voucher
-dispensary across t he street, hell yeah (salish coast cannabis)
-fatburger dinner, connecting in the corner
-Deception taco bell after 1.5 drive home (i love you)

day 2
-breakfast!
-are we doing lunch or dinner?
-picnic point, i heard seals! cool shelter made of sticks. train tracks (phew!), the floor is lava, smoking, charlie the dog!, river into ocean
thrift store vibes?? value village sucked, so we went to get lunch. on our way to get lunch we saw the trunk sale (instead of garages it was people’s cars! everyone was so lovely. pike place puzzle)
-mel’s tea place (rose gold coffee, ham turkey cheddar turnover delicious, busy understaffed, pretty in pink, great atmosphere, someone made eye contact and instead of looking away immediately they smiled at me first, the PNW is weird)
-pretty in pink left us hungry so we went to the FAT PIG BBQ across the street. delicious as fuck to. so glad we did that
-actual thrift store (sophie’s choice)–can you believe we found binoculars???? i got a cool watch too. god i love you. so thankful thankful thankful
-came back to show off the goods! grandma remains bitter. we go to olive garden without her anyway 🙂
-olive garden??? they dropped my food. “911 steak” took it offthe check. our waiter was going to cry. red honda??? thanks olive garden staff sorry big corporations suck 😦