part one of summer

howdy doody everyone,

it's interesting. day 2 of relaxation and i feel like posting again.

goes to show what relaxing does to a person. besides, its too hot to move or anything and as you all already know, this spot (with the computer and desk) is perfect as the day cools off. my headphones are in, breeze is sweetening the deal and ahhh, im quite content with just being.

well, on our drive in the northern olympic peninsula (in washington, close to the olympic national park), we got a kick out of this street's name,



"hi mom and dad, we finally got our new address and it is 534 kitchen-dick road, which crosses with hancock"

"what? 534 kitchen-dick? for real?"

yup. for real. i have seen names which does seem funny but for some reason, this one is my favorite of them all. kitchen and dick. what does these two share with eachother? did lorena bobbitt name this street or maybe someone was quite partial to phallauses since dick and cock meets in an intersection. i can see them being edible (still attatched mind you) but, kitchen-dick?!


however, it was a beautiful drive and a beautiful weekend. :)

(lake crescent, in the olympics)

aj, camille,

bruce, alex, sawyer, ray,

and my dear steve,

thank you for restoring the light within and thank you for all the laughing we had. :) with you guys, its so natural to feel calm and i love finding home with each of you.

aj, btw, how is billy the fly? i cant stop laughing about how billy was. of course, if we were to meet an unique fly, it'd be with you. it sure was one smart little bugger.

i would have stayed in seattle for another week, hell, a whole month but with my youngest sister's upcoming wedding and clare's birth i boarded amtrak once again and rode the inbetween with my head resting on the window. so my eyes could drink in the northwestern terrain before they disappear into a memory. during the sunset, deep in the mountains of oregon, we passed an utility box where someone spray painted a question

"who travels here?"

it tugged my mouth into a smile and occupied my thoughts well into bedtime. who travels here? everyone does but maybe the real question was who saw the question and who gets to realise that they, too, travel here.

once my feet touched the ground of bay area, everything was a whirlwind.

no time to unwind, no time to unpack. it was all straight into the heat wave,


into lis' (my youngest sister) bachelorette party in SF,

(pix taken by clare)

where i had my first experience in observing karaoke,

vivian, lis, and cara

into jc's birthday without having jc around,

into the craziness of shopping for mally's flower dress with the fam,

(photo taken by robert, lis' new hubby)
into a limo bus winery tour with the out of town wedding guests/family and a dear friend,

(photo taken by our winery tour guide)

into, into, into
into rehearsal, dinners, family time, wedding day, sudden curve ball of flu with the children, aidan's birth, 4th of july, out of town guests and unto now.

if i could put pictures for every one of these dodos, it would take forever to upload the entire webpage.

tomorrow is our last full day here in the bay area and i will be squeezing in a photoshoot with one family then a dip in the pool with my girlfriends...hopefully a full night's sleep before we hop onto amtrak for new york and boston.

what would that bring? part two, im sure.

suddenly, im famished. i think i will go for a walk and buy something to eat.