This trip was the first time I'd been away from immediate family since KidLitCon II in 2008, when Adrienne and I explored downtown Portland. We stayed with my aunt and uncle, who live on the island part of the year.
Highlights of the trip included:
* I got to spend time with my friend and get to know her better sans kids.
* The first day of our trip, my friend said, "How do you feel about getting away from civilization? Let's go for a hike."
*After the hike, we drove into town, where I revealed that I really wanted to try the 2 different Nanaimo bars (link goes to a gluten free version) that had beckoned to me since I first stuck my head in the Home Grown Market. We bought one of each bar (cappuccino and Irish cream), and split them.
*My friend made fabulous salads that were meals in themselves. I didn't do any cooking, but I was pleased to present to my aunt a bourbon sour made with fresh ingredients, including a Rainier cherry garnish in lieu of the traditional maraschino variety. I don't drink many cocktails, but I enjoy reading about them and learning to make them. Therefore, I need people willing to sample my concoctions.
* I got to visit the Bossy's Feltworks studio again and chat with the vibrant, creative ladies who collaborated with me to make last year's nativity sets. I wish I were part of a collective like theirs.
Now, I am back in Seattle trying to focus on work again. There are dolls to make, songs to learn, stories to write, and a 10k for which to train. My husband is starting to worry that after the 10k, I will start training for a half-marathon (13.2 miles, which is a little over two 10k runs). Who knows? I'm forty years old, and I've got Something To Prove.
3 comments:
Sounds like a great trip!
When I next visit, I will be happy to cook and sample as many drinks as you care to come up with. :)
I'm glad, too, that you had a great trip, and now that I've read the phrase "blackberry pie," I feel that I may need to bake one this weekend. Blackberries must be available at the market tomorrow morning...
Yes, yes, to blackberry pie! Bede brought a 1/2 flat of blackberries home for me, and the mixture for blackberry sorbet with a spearmint infusion is cooling in the refrigerator.
I think I may have found my dessert calling with sorbets (possibly coconut milk sherbets, too, but we shall see). I frost cakes horribly, and my pie crusts are abysmal. But as a high school boyfriend said to me after a run of pies gone wrong, "Why don't you just stick to cookies? You're good at those." He honestly couldn't understand my reaction to those words.
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