Girl Fun!

Well I had my first ever girl weekend this last weekend. It was great! I went to San Diego with my friend Alison to celebrate her 40th birthday and honestly, I forgot how nice it is to just be a grown woman. I love my kids, I love being a mom, but it was nice to take a whole weekend away to just be a grown woman. Eat lunch with the ladies, have some drinks, eat some nice meals and SLEEP IN! Yes. That was the best, although I have to admit, by sleep in I just mean that I slept until 730am instead of being woken up by 630am and harassed in bed until 9am. Either way, I will take it!

We had a great time, we walked on the beach and I got to know her two very closest of friends. They were really nice and although I hadn't met them before I did hear a lot about them in previous years and I am glad that they are now a little piece of my life.

A few of the places we stopped at while in San Diego...

-USS Midway: Its a whole bunch of navy ships and submarines and such that you can walk through. We didn't do the actual tour but we walked along each of the boats and took a quick peek. It was fun.

- GasLamp District: All the fun restaurants and bars and 'hipsters' are down on GasLamp. I'd be lieing if I said I didn't totally fit in with the fancy dressed people, frat boys and sorority girls but it was great people watching.

- Coronado Island: We stayed on the Navy Base there and it was beautiful, but the stuff around was pretty great to. A little sports bar and local brewery and just a really pretty place to visit.

- La Jolla: I've heard of it and never been. Great little touristy place, lots of shops and a great view of the beach pretty much from anywhere. We all decided while we were there that if we each took out a giant loan we could buy a 500sq ft loft for about 10 million bucks to share. No joke.

As much as I enjoyed my time down there I greatly missed my hunny and every single one of the kiddos. I mean. Who doesn't miss getting woken up to early or lazy nights on the couch or catching happy hour for a quick date! I sure did. It also made me realize that as tough as I was going to try and be while my guy gets deployed it will be a lot harder than I was prepared for. Never having been a very emotionally attached person, my whole outlook on life, love and family has changed. I will be sad but this also makes me realize we are much stronger than what I have ever had and I am super grateful for that. I mean...

My life is pretty perfect these days...

except that I came home to....

Laundry...LOTS of Laundry...

And dishes...stinky gross dishes...

Guess my guy just wanted to make sure I didn't stay in vacation mode for TOO long!