The drive up wasn't quite as fun. Two hours in to our four hour drive Ashlyn got car sick and threw up all over herself and the car seat. There's nothing quite like being on the side of the freeway with cars driving by at 80 miles an hour and having to strip your kid down to her diaper when she's covered in puke. Thank goodness I had a travel pack of Clorox wipes in my purse that Jered used to clean the car seat. I wiped Ashlyn down with some diaper wipes and put clean pj's on her but the puke smell did not go away. We stopped at Target in Gig Harbor for some air freshener and that helped a little bit but it took a few days for the smell to go away. So we had to wash the car seat pads and give Ashlyn a bath before the party. Jered left the car seat outside over night and let the rain wash it all away! :o) Its never been so clean!!
We're getting ready for our trip to San Francisco! I'm getting pretty excited! We're leaving Ashlyn with my mom for FOUR days!! This will be there first time we've left her for more than just overnight. I know I'm going to miss her but I'm really looking forward to taking a trip with just Jered. We'll get to SF on Friday afternoon and Jered will probably want to do some last minute cramming for his test (the whole reason we're going is for Jered to take his California survey license) but we'll also get to go out to dinner and have a few drinks by ourselves! Saturday morning will be Jered's test and I'll get to sleep in. Saturday afternoon we're going to do a little sight seeing, we've been to SF before so we'll hit our favorite spots. Then Saturday night we've already got tickets for the Alcatraz Night tour. I'm excited for this one! All the times we went to SF and we've never done Alcatraz. One of my friends said the Night tour was awesome, a little freaky and really really cool. Then on Sunday we're going to drive over to Sonoma and do a little wine tasting. We're going to go to Francis Ford Coppola's winery and another one that has had its sparkling wines served at the White House for the last four presidents. We've got plans for four or five places, depending on how we feel. We're going to do the LONG drive back to Portland all in one day. We may regret it but its the only way we can get optimum days of free time! I've already got the itinerary done and its got addresses for the first opportunity to stop In-n-Out (Redding, CA) and others along the route. I fully plan to get my double-double fix while we're down there!
After our SF trip we'll be getting ready for our trip to Hawaii. I've been busting my butt at the gym for 3 months now and haven't lost a pound but I'm still trying. It gets a little discouraging to be working out and not see results but my friends at work help out by making go on days when I don't feel like going. I figure even if I'm not losing any weight at least its good for my heart! That's what I tell myself about wine too!!
Here's a few pictures:
The brightest moon we'll see for the next 20 years. It was pretty bright!
I'm getting my nails cut. I'm not really sure why Mommy thought I needed my picture taken.
I had a blue lollipop at Grace's party and my tongue turned blue too!!
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