A little break

After a few weeks of pretty intense stress and sicknesses I took off down to Washington for a little R&R with my non-biological sisters. I always feel a sense of relief and peace when I'm with them. I guess that comes from over 35 years of knowing someone and spending my entire youth connected at the hip with these girls. They certainly know me and live me like know one else does and for that I'm sooo grateful! But with traveling down to Washington comes the reality that I am off our Island in in the land of cheap and exciting shopping adventures. So even though I came down with one small tiny suitcase and a very strict budget, I realized that I would be foolish not to take care of some of my needs and a few wants. 

So here I now sit after lugging a couple hundred pounds of cheap canned good and my favorite healthy no calorie soda "Zevia" (7 cases)and a new patio umbrella up a huge incline onto the Anacortez ferry. Never before did I realize how steep that incline was but I certainly do now.  Thank goodness for my sister lending me her suitcase as it would have been rather humorous watching me juggle 10 grocery bags full of stuff! 

Now I just get to sit and enjoy the scenery. The San Juan islands are sprinkled in the ocean between Washington State and Vancouver Island they look majestic this morning with the cloudy mist that hovers around each little land mass. I adore this part of the country! 

I'll never forget how the smell of the ocean made me cry after I had been living on the southern East coast for 3 years. It had been probably 6 years since I had been to my island and just getting on the ferry in Washington and smelling that amazing salty air and hearing those sea birds was a precious reminder of who I really am. You can take the girl off the island but you'll never take the island out of the girl!