In July, I took a plane down to San Francisco to spend the weekend celebrating my youngest sister Tory's Bachelorette Party. I was nervous because it was my first time away from Olivia for more than one night. She was very attached to mom at the time. The plan was that I was going to drop the kids off at daycare but Brandon woke up not feeling very well so I kept him home with me in the morning and then Sean went home early with him and worked from home. I was supposed to drive my car to Sean's work in Gresham and drop Brandon off with him and then park at the long term parking but I hit terrible traffic. Sean ended up having to come and pick me up at a airport hotel and then drop me off and park the car and shuttle back to the car. It was quite complicated. Anyways, I got to the airport just in time and then got on the airplane and I was on my way to San Francisco-a weekend of freedom!
Some photos that Daddy sent me while I was on my trip of the kiddos:
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| Hugging Brandon while mom's away |
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| Playing in the backyard |
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| Love this one at Pump It Up |
Rachel and I were the co-maids of honor so we planned Tory's Bachelorette Party with the other bridesmaids. Tory luckily gave us quite a few ideas on what she wanted to do (basically planned the party!). Rachel was amazing and organized most of it as it was a bit harder to organize from a state away. The first day we hung out and had a few drinks at Tory's apartment and then went to a very yummy Italian restaurant that had a fixed menu. Tory had her close friends from out of town come with her. Then Rachel and I went back to her house in Oakland for the night.
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| Tory and her good friend Joan from high school and her friend Kate from college at dinner |
The next day we had a full day planned! We rented a Bar Fly bus (basically a decked out school bus that had couches and even a bed in it!) for the day. This was nice because we could all drink and not have to worry about driving. We all met at Safeway in the City and then we were on our way around 10:30 AM. We headed to the Russian River to go floating down the river in inner tubes. Unfortunately, the water was not super high due to the drought in California but we were able to make it down the river most of the way. We realized it was going to take quite a while to get down the river so Tory and a few of her friends made it to shore and hitch hiked to our Bar Fly bus and got him to come back for us.
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| On the Bar Fly bus |
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| Bar Fly bus time! |
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| Enjoying drinks and food on the bus |
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| Passing the Golden Gate bridge |
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| Rach and I |
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Inflatable penis inner tube going around the bus
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We went out to a yummy dinner at Stumptown Brewery. It was good to get some food in us as floating down the river with drinks made us hangry as Tory calls it. After we finished eating, we got back on the bus and went to Isis Oasis in Guiserville. Isis Oasis contained farm animals, a temple to pray with nature, and other cool and somewhat strange items. We stayed in a giant house that had at least 6 rooms and could sleep 20 people. We played a fun Questions game where Tory had to guess what questions Tom answered. Tory actually did pretty well with answering most of the questions Tom answered-they were a match made! We had some drinks and then played Cards of Matrimony (a fun spin off of Cards of Humanity) and then most people went to bed. I ended up staying up later with Tory and a few of her friends playing Cards of Humanity outside on the deck.
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