Back from our weekend on the Olympic Peninsula. The caboose B&B was comfy and whimsical, with lavish breakfasts. We spent yesterday driving about halfway around Olympic National Park, including a visit to the Hoh Rain Forest and the actual Pacific coast (with crashing surf!), not merely Puget Sound or the Strait of Juan de Fuca. The weather was gorgeous, upper 60's and low 70's and more or less sunny.
On the ferry back today, I realized I was turning into one of Those Seattle People. There I was at a window with the Olympics on my left, the Cascades in the distance to my right, the Sound before me with two other ferries and an assortment of sailboats sharing the water, and all I could think was that there just COULDN'T be a better place. I really, really hope we can find a way to stay in the Northwest for keeps. We've occasionally discussed the possible advisability of moving closer to our families, both for financial and family reasons...but after this weekend I don't want to. I want to stay here with the mountains and the rocky coast and the cool deep greens of the forests and the ocean and the islands.
It took me awhile, but I love it here.
ugg. Someone at the local broadcast station flipped something, and now the sound on the Telethon is nasty here in LA. Grrr. I hate bad sound.
I loved the San Juan Islands. I'd move to the PNW if the opportunity came around.
We did have an interesting time people watching. The bride's family does not match her at all. They seemed straight out of Deliverance. People that show up to a wedding with their own coolers of beer? Yeah
Heh. Apparently my coworker's wedding was interesting (I missed it). She's Indian, and was in full sari and all. His family? His grandpa came in *overalls* (granted, it was a casual reception, but still!)
Did I miss an underwear memo?
I sometimes wonder this myself.
It was fanfic. He slashed Bert and Ernie.
Oh, please. That's practically textual.
:( I never got sex at a wedding... Course most of the ones of recent were Lesbian ceremonies.... go figure why I didn't
Hm. I'm wondering if you can actually pick up chicks at a lesbian wedding if you're a lesbian. I'm thinking no. Unless you're picking up an ex-girlfriend. There's usually plenty of those at a lesbian wedding.
It took me awhile, but I love it here.
Oh, Susan, I really hope I'm one of those people soon!
Man, a zillion bucks needs to land on Burrell and family with a rider that they have to move here!
:( I never got sex at a wedding... Course most of the ones of recent were Lesbian ceremonies.... go figure why I didn't
Hell, I didn't even get it at my own! (We were way too tired from the wedding to do much other than flop into bed on our wedding night. We're lame.)
(We were way too tired from the wedding to do much other than flop into bed on our wedding night. We're lame.)
You're not lame--you're me and DH!
(We were way too tired from the wedding to do much other than flop into bed on our wedding night. We're lame.)
You're not lame--you're me and DH!
Suddenly I am envisioning an alternate universe in which the Fundies are so in control of society that there are a whole lot more weddings at which the newly married couple are both virgins, and so virginal that they have barely kissed - and yet in this universe, no one cares about sexual orientation - so lesbian and gay couples happily marry, and have all the same fun of being as freaked by OMG!FirstTime!WeddingNight jitters as any Regency Romance heroine.
Right. I need sleep. Sorry about the brain leakage.
Man, a zillion bucks needs to land on Burrell and family with a rider that they have to move here!
I wish. Do you happen to have any magic powers?
I have got some serious creeps going on. Quick: someone tell me there's no such thing as ghosts.
edit: or better yet, tell these ghosts!
If one of them asks you if you're a god, say yes.
