Home for a week

I successfully made it back to Virginia on Sunday evening after flying back home to Texas on Thursday evening!

I never thought I'd say I was tired of flying or traveling, but I think I'm coming to the point where I can say that. Less than a week from now, on Monday, we'll board another plane headed to Atlanta for 3 days.

I had a great weekend back home at my parents house hanging out with the family. At points during my time there I thought to myself, "really, why do I live so far away?" I love my family, and I'm so thankful for them, but it was nice to get to come back to VA and feel 'at home' again. Of course there was no beautiful, warm, sun shiny days while I was there, it was torrential downpour. Though I did make it out into the pasture once on the 4-wheeler.

My brother and his girlfriend and both of their kids were there as well as my sister, Eric & Will; Rachel and Anna were there as well. It was nice to get to see mostly family but a few close friends as well.

We had fun making oatmeal-raisin cookies, red-play dough, and playing many rounds of Quiddler.

Of course all of the dogs were thrilled to see me, especially Ozzie and Roma!

Oh travel.

4 states in less than one month! I think I'm setting some sort of record!

Since I've been working for the Warren's, I've been traveling with Sharla to her conferences....only I have only been to Orlando, FL thus far. On Sunday we set off to San Antonio, Texas (of all places) until Thursday! I'm super excited about the fact that it is in SA because I'll get to see Jennifer, Will, my Dad, and Susan!! How much better could a "work trip" be!?

Then just 1 1/2 weeks later, we'll be heading to Atlanta, GA for 3 days, and then a week after that I head to Keystone, CO and then just 3 days later I'll be in Las Vegas, NV!

The best part is, the whole time, I just hang out with Charlie.... so we'll take walks, we'll take naps, we'll just hang out and play and have a great time.

In between my trip to Atlanta & Keystone...the RBDwyer Adventure team will be making a trip to Washington, D.C. to see me which I am really excited about! I can't believe that they're coming all this way, though clearly D.C. has a lot to see and do, and with the ages of the kids, it's perfect time.

Needless to say, I'll be officially exhausted come May 12. Did I mention we're taking the 'red-eye' flight out of Vegas, back to D.C.! We leave at like 11:30pm and arrive back in DC at 7 a.m. the next day. Of course, this will be the easiest flight for Charlie which is why we are taking it! I mean, we're practically flying from the West Coast to the East Coast... almost.

I'm super excited about all the traveling, however it's going to be super busy at each destination!

But before I leave on Sunday... I'm going to see Chicago with Rachel which I'm pretty excited about! Should be a great way to leave D.C.!

Spring.... Sardines...

So this past weekend, I ventured out into D.C.,...on my own, to see the Cherry Blossoms - not quite sure of really just what I would experience, at all.

Before I got to take in the Cherry Blossom beauty and smell, I went over to Ebenezer's Coffee House to help stuff Easter Eggs for the Easter Eggstravanganza I volunteered to help out with this upcoming weekend. That was a feat in itself because... I metro-ed in from Falls Church, had to CHANGE train lines (big deal people) and then go on to Union Station and then walk to Ebenezer's - the most I've done "on my own" thus far. The good news was I made it...the bad news, the process.

Saturday also happened to be the day of the Cherry Blossom Parade, so mind you, everyone who lives in D.C. plus 1 million visitors were out and about, also using the metro- perfect. I officially felt overwhelmed by the amount of people I was surrounded by...and this included me being FORCED onto a metro train, like no way I was turning back, people were pushing on...and even better, I could barely breath, not to mention how there was no personal space at all. Granted, this might be a normal occurrence for people who live in D.C. or just metro more than I do, especially in like rush hour - but for me, definitely a first, and I definitely felt like a sardine.

After I finished stuffing eggs I decided to make my way down to the National Mall and enjoy the day for awhile. It was quite the site to take in....the mall was filled with tons of people and lots of kites - it felt like I was in some sort of movie....way cool.

After venturing down to the Tidal Basin and noticing just how many people were here, and at the Jefferson Memorial, I decided to just stay where I was and take pictures there...no need to try to move through that many people. So I didn't, and I took a whole lot of pictures - some of which are posted on the shutterfly site ... I didn't post all 200 of them, don't worry!

So I had one more shot at being a tourist, and it was definitely worth it...the Cherry Blossoms are quite beautiful, no doubt.