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July 18, 2005
Images of California
There are some things I’m working on for Feminist Housewife, but I felt the need to post something in the interim. So—a photographic account of my two most recent trips to California.
The first trip was a while ago—it actually predates my last entry. I was working for Nate’s parents at the PMA show and I arrived early so I could spend time in Santa Cruz with friends. Here’s a picture of Hope behind some flowers.
I think we’d had quite a bit of wine by this point in the evening. By the way—I’ve stopped drinking. The decision fell between the two trips.
The next day (despite my hang over) Alison and I packed a picnic and headed for the beach, where we met Sid.
Sid is the sea gull above. His wing is broken. We fed him a lot of bread and chips as discreetly as possible so as not to alert the other sea gulls. Here’s a pic of Alison:
She’s such a sweetheart. The lucky duck is getting ready to trek across Europe, leaving any day now.
Then came the PMA show, where I took this one of Kelley and Jill; Nate’s mom and sister, respectively.
After the show I had a lovely time hanging out with Meadow—unfortunately I don’t have any photos of our time together. Then it was back to Joplin for about a week, I think. We returned to California for the Fourth of July holiday. Here are some pictures I took in the Phoenix airport. I don’t know who Nate’s on the phone with. I actually thought about calling him from my seat right next to him—he’s on the phone a lot when he travels.
That’s me—our waitress was weird and insisted on checking the picture to make sure she wasn’t in it. I don’t know what difference it would make, it’s not as if I would have agreed to delete it if she had been.
I’d recently made my decision to abstain from drinking and changed my plans to help me stay on course. Instead of staying in Santa Cruz with Matt and Hope (as much as I love them- I wasn’t ready) and remained in Calistoga with the Brogans instead. What a fabulous few days!!! My sister, brother in law, and nephew came to visit us in Calistoga. We had fun in the pool, and I wish I’d gotten more pictures of Simon playing in the water.
Well, that’s it. I always have a hard time coming back here after visits home. (At this point I consider the entire state of California home.) Nate could tell something was up when we were packing for the return trip. I told him how depressing I find Joplin to be, he sympathized, we talked, and came to a mutual decision to establish a primary residence in Kansas City (Nate will still need a place in Joplin for work). To say I’m happy about this is an understatement, but I’ll elaborate as things start progressing.
Posted by April at July 18, 2005 01:07 PM
Comments
Why aren't there any pictures of me up this time? I'm cute!!!
Posted by: Hermano at July 21, 2005 04:03 PM
Hermano did not accompany us on either trip to California. There will inevitably be more pictures of him here in the future, though.
Posted by: April at July 21, 2005 04:09 PM
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