So, when The Colonel encouraged me to go on my annual Buddy Weekend this year (which I was thinking of skipping to save some money), my buddy Agnes and I cooked up a plan to surprise the rest of the girls. But before we get to that...
I ended up spending 9 days in California with my mom and Lil Major. And in those 9 days, we traveled A LOT of miles. I've been to CA many times since we moved here, but only one of those trips took me to northern California, and I've missed seeing some family and friends by staying down south. This time we flew into San Francisco so that Mom could spend the week with her mom and sister and I could visit with a couple friends from college before heading down south.
BUT before we could get to my aunt's to enjoy time with everyone, we had to GET to my aunt's. That involved flying into SFO, juggling all of our stuff (2 huge suitcases, the car seat, stroller, 2 backpacks, the diaper bag, and the three of us) to the shuttle, then the BART train, and riding to the East Bay with all of that junk at 5 o'clock rush hour on a very crowded train. We made it, somehow. I should have taken a picture of our entourage, but I was too busy balancing the car seat on top of my suitcase. Public transportation is pretty cool in some parts of our country.
I spent about 40 hours in northern California. It was just enough time for Lil Major to play with his Uncle D and the new trains...
enough time for Mom to make homemade chicken and noodles...
enough time for me to visit with two special friends from college, and their little ones. It was the first time I met the baby girls and I hadn't seen the cute boy since he was an infant! We spent several hours oohing and aahing over the kiddos, snapping an obscene amount of pictures, and trying frantically to catch up on the last several years. The last time all three of us were together was probably almost 3 years ago, and it was a quick visit then, too.
(Looks like it was even enough time for the girls to fight over Lil Major...hee hee)
and enough time for Lil Major to spend some time with his great grandma (his ONLY living great grandparent)...
That's a lot for 40 hours!
The next leg of our journey is still to come...
4 comments:
excellent trip recap! It's amazing that you and your college friends seem to have similar biological clocks!!!
The picture of Lil Major with GG is priceless and needs to go in the scrapbook!
I can't imagine trying to juggle all that luggage! It's amazing how much stuff babies need!
he's got hair!! the boy has HAIR!!! yay!! maybe he'll take after his mama on that one! ;) i haven't seen him w/ that much hair and wasn't expecting it - is it red? it looks reddish in some of the pics. i can't believe how big he is! and in just one month!
the pic of him and uncle d is fun and you actually got a good one of him w/ grandma anne - ours of her and micah got deleted, remember? and the one we took later isn't that great. :(
And he looks so happy..apparently all the traveling didn't bother him too much. I'm glad you got to go on your annual trip. But best of all, Lil Major and you got to see your grandmother. That is priceless.
Mama Bear
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