10 Down, 2 1/2 To Go!

We're coming to the home stretch of Dellas' absence and I'm getting anxious! This past weekend marked my last visit to the coast that I returned home alone. Luckily, a little bit of warm weather followed me over to the great Northwet and we had a wonderful summer weekend together.
I flew in a little earlier than usual (3pm) which we thought would be nice but, after sitting for 2hrs in "the Friday Flee" traffic to get down to Olympia, we sort of wondered if I should've just stuck to my usual 8pm arrival :-P However, enduring the traffic allowed us to get to Oly in time to meet my parents downtown for dinner and ice cream which was nice.

My favorite mountain, always fun to see from the air. (Mt Rainier)

On Saturday, we did our usual Starbucks/Costco/Home Depot run and got home in time for the weather to be warming up nicely. The "men" puttered around outside on the tractor for a couple of hrs before I put my foot down and told them to stop being boring and go kayaking with me :-P
In order to see pics of kayaking you'll have to check out this facebook album because the pics are from my mom's camera and not available for upload from my laptop.
After kayaking a bit, we came back for a yummy meal of BBQ ribs, homemade potato salad, dutch oven baked beans, and dutch oven berry cobbler with homemade ice cream.
My plane wasn't due to leave on Sunday until 8:15pm so we had a little more time to putter around home with mom and dad. Del drove dad's tractor around most of the day so I hopped on for a few minutes as well :)

Once the "work" was done, Dad and Del took each other on at HORSE and played best of 3. They'd been talking about this game all weekend so it was an intense hour!

After splitting 1-1, game 3 was the deciding match that gave dad the winning title. Maybe next time, Del ;)


The time came for Del and I to head back up to the airport so we gave ourselves 2 hrs to get there and we needed almost all of it again due to traffic. Once close to the airport, I decided I had a few extra minutes to grab a bite to eat and I'm glad I did! Because, halfway through eating, I received a text from my airline stating "Flight #### is delayed. New departure time is 10:40pm" (remember, it was 8:15pm) UGH! Instead of sitting alone at the gate, we wasted those 2 hrs sitting in a mall parking lot, reading, talking, and getting a McFlurry from McDonald's :-P I was also glad that I was able to coordinate with Del's cousin to drop my car off at the airport to avoid her having to pick me at 1am!
At 12:40am I landed in Boise and was welcome by 80 degree weather. By 1:30am I was in bed, exhausted, dreading work. Luckily, I had texted my boss on Sunday night (in case my flight got canceled or something) so on Monday morning, she texted me and told me to go back to bed and come in at 11am  :) I didn't question her and crawled back into bed for a couple of hours!


SO! I'm home now for just 2.5 more weeks until I go to steal my husband back!