This post is a mainly happy and a little sad post. First of all, I had the most incredible pre-birthday/makeshift mother's day weekend ever. I was really sad to have to spend my birthday away from home but so grateful to get to spend the weekend with my grandma and aunt eating HOMEMADE FOOD (BLESS) and cake and ice cream the ENTIRE TIME while watching HGTV (something I really only do with family as dorky as that sounds and yes, house hunters is one of my all-time favorite TV shows).
My grandma has a GORGEOUS beach cabin up on Whidbey Island (or whimbley as Sabrina would say :)). It has an immense amount of sentimental value for me since I have spent almost every summer there since the first year I was born. It is an adorable little cabin that my grandparents built themselves in the late 1960's (I believe, don't quote me on that). My mom still remembers being about 8 and handing nails to my grandpa while he hammered on the house. I still remember summers repainting the deck and going clamming with my mom and brothers. So it was awesome to get to spend some weekends there but also is a little sad because my family isn't there with me. Also a little sad because my grandma is pretty sick and half the reason I go up there is to help run errands and fix stuff around the house.
Also the train ride here was damn incredible, it goes along the coast from Seattle to Mukilteo where I get to take the ferry (which also has so much sentimental value for me).
A picture from the train (sorry if the weird effect throws you off, I am trying to hide how terrible my phone's camera is)
A picture from the train (sorry if the weird effect throws you off, I am trying to hide how terrible my phone's camera is)
And a picture from the ferry
The trip was pretty awesome in general and I always enjoy taking it, seeing the city growing smaller behind me is one of the greatest feelings ever, I am definitely not a city girl. I am a suburbia queen for sure.
The beach house was astonishingly beautiful when I was there. It was a little cloudy but sunny most of the time and we got a beautiful shot of the olympic mountains and got to see the first batch of cruise ships of the season going up to Alaska and a ton of giant container ships going past. The smell of salt water and boat gas is probably one of my favorite smells as weird as that sounds, if someone made a candle out of that, I would definitely buy it.
Here are a few more pictures of my views around the island, again they are all pretty boring scenic pictures (which I actually hate a lot) but I am just trying to give you an idea of what it looks like.
As you can imagine, this was a great break from being in the city.
Now onto birthday matters. This is my first birthday away from home, and it sucks a little bit. I had an amazing birthday last year (spent the first minutes of it being paraded around my old work's parking lot by some of my favorite people). And even though it was on mother's day last year, it was still awesome in all ways. I had to work, but I am weird and actually had fun at work because most of my good friends at the time were my coworkers (I worked too much) and that night I had an amazing dinner with my family.
I really wish I could do that again but this year is pretty makeshift and low key. After spending the morning sobbing because my mom sent me an extremely heartfelt email because she is the greatest person ever, I am editing a paper to turn in later then going out to dinner at our exquisite cafeteria (HAHA) then watching the season finale of Survivor (which I am actually really excited for) with my friends. It is a Monday so we can't do anything crazy, but I am really excited about it.
Also I made a new playlist which I think is my best yet even though it isn't getting as much attention as my previous ones. I love this playlist so much, I listen to it nonstop. Check it out if you got some spare minutes:
