Howdy!
So the months of April & May have just flown by! We spent a fabulous week in New Orleans. We had a lot of awesome food, heard some great (and not so great) music, did a lot of walking and saw the sites with some conference friends. There was a ton of amazing stuff that the conference put on and had available to both the attendees and the significant others. I will put pictures up at some point.
It was really nice to come home after the conference and be able to move into our house. We did a lot of little packing since we still had to keep things prepped for our upcoming trip to California. Then Darrell asked to borrow a truck, and not only did he end up with a truck, he ended up with a 16 foot trailer and 4 co-workers to help. So we just finished moving everything from the apartment. There was still cleaning supplies and little stuff at the apartment, but we were staying in our new house. At least for two days.
Then our trip to California. We left early on Saturday morning to drive to Dallas. We landed at SFO and then got the rental and spent the day hanging out with Ryca and Jon. It was a total blast. We had brunch on Sunday with Michelle & Ryca at a cool little place in Oakland. Don’t remember the name, but it was great! Then we traveled down to Santa Cruz to visit some friends down there. We got there a little early, so we hit up a couple places that are our normals when we end up in that area. We got to have dinner with Turtle, Michelle, Megan, Geoff, Abby, Henry, and Matthew. After chilling out for a bit, we drove through Sunnyvale to stop at Trader Joes and say hi to Min since she couldn’t come for the dinner. Then we spent about an hour getting lost in San Francisco (gee.. why does that always happen when you move away?) then finally made it to Boonville. We hung out in Boonville with Will, Peggy, Rod, & Janna on Monday. On Tuesday we drove up to Humboldt. We picked up Lorna on the way and then hung out with Kendra, Lee, Wiz, Loyn, & Ben. Ahh.. we were feeling the relaxation of hanging out with normal people! We spent a couple days in Humboldt seeing a whole bunch of people (Liam, Toshi, Sigrid, Kearney, Grace, Jes, Matt, & lots more). Then on Thursday we traveled back down to Ukiah to stay with Book & Janna to prep for the awesome weekend!
Boonville Beer Festival 2010!!! We got to see so many of our friends that it made us hope for the next five years to fly by! We hung out around the firepit, played our horns, grilled up a meat fest, got drunk (ps – sorry Jon but I would call operation Caye Caulker a slight bust.. It was great until most of it came up along the drive to SFO :/) Ahh.. we were slightly bummed the weekend was ending. Since we had to leave real early on Sunday, we didn’t get to say goodbye to a lot of people, so next year, I think we are going to set things up so we don’t leave until Monday. The trip just went to fast.
So we finally returned from all of our vacations and Lorna flew back out with us. We worked a lot on unpacking all of the stuff into the house and catching up at work. I finished up my school year, so summer here I come, but no paycheck…. Oh well.. Gives me time to relax. I also got my netflix wii disc, so now I have unlimited movies.. hahaha!! Darrell likes to call it my Wiiflix.
If any of y’all wanna come visit, our door is open! Just give us a call!
~The Ross’