#55 no kid vacation

Oh how I have missed THIS!!! The coffee is delicious, I'm just using 2% milk as creamer because at 12:37am the only thing open in Tahoe city was the shell gas station...which chips, bean dip, salsa, butterfingers and tea may also have been purchased....but that cannot be confirmed. :) 

The hubs and I have not taken a vacation just us since Santa Fe back in 2011 ... So it's been over 3 years. It is amazing to me how fast and slow time goes when children are involved. It's also amazing to me how giddy I was all day leading up to the vacation! 

Packing was surreal. Just in the carry on alone for once I didn't feel like the world worst pack mule. What? I don't have to pack a million things to distract my children into a duffle bag the size of my 3 year old?! I can just bring my book that I am actually going to READ on the plane?!?! I dont have to pack a case of diapers and wipes because even though I can buy them at our destination, You never know what butt explosions or super pee marathons may occur I the 6 hrs of airport time?!?!

Ok 

I'll take it!! Hubs and I slept in, and now we are going to go eat breakfast downtown somewhere ... Sigh... Giddy!!!!

Eeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!

#38 Mountain Coffee

I am currently on vacation.

I am in the mountains.

Heaven has to look something like this...right?

Just getting of the plane and I see THIS

Mountain Pond 3 miles into a hike

Hubs looking at Jenny Lake

Why did I move to Texas again? :)  

Just kidding I do like Texas...but it would be better if it had mountains :) But then, wouldn't all states be better with mountains?  

yes. yes they would.

I've been drinking a pretty good coffee I picked up at the Albertson's here in town. Java Delight light roast. Yummy yummy!

Yes I know the picture is backwards...I don't feel like fixing it :)

There was one thing on this trip I wanted to do (besides drinking good coffee) and that was to take my picture by the Celestine Pool in Yellowstone.  

WHYYYYYY you ask!?  Because 20 years ago I was with my family crammed into a minivan in a cross country trip from California to New York for a family reunion.  Well one of the stops was at Yellowstone National Park and I took a picture of myself in front of the Celestine pool (my middle name is Celeste) so my dad said it was my pool.  :)  That picture has been one of those impression moments that you go back to and think fondly of. You know, that time when you had such a great time that every time you think about it, it just captures that trip or memory for you.  

That trip was also the trip that I got my family nickname Tinker Cow. Yes. TINKER COW.  I had a key to my "diary"  (because my 11 year old world needed to be locked into a journal) that was around my neck and in made a tinker sound.  Well at breakfast one morning I was being a butt to my older sister and pretended to drink her milk (which apparently was an unforgivable sin) a she called me a COW. My dad quickly chimed in "She's not a cow!... ( Thanks Dad for sticking up for me!)...She's a TINKER COW!" (dad fail)

And it stuck. forever my family regards me as cow.  

It had grown on me, and now after 20 years it's sort of cute :)  I even turned it into a comic strip in High school called Cow's Unite with the main character being my alter ego T.C....I'll have to share it with you all some time :) 

Anywho, back to this picture.  I descided that when we agreed on where to go for vacation, I would go back to that same spot and take my picture there again.  AND I DID!!!  So here you go!

Notice the key around my 11 yr old neck? :)

So what am I thankful for today?

Nostalgia.