Ellie loves Johnny!

Wow, what a great time we had on our road trip! I got to stay in 6 different hotels, and I LOVE hotels!! It was so awesome to see family, friends, and familiar places. Our driving went great,  John drove, I fed him snacks, we listened to new music, he listened to audio books (that immediately put me to sleep) Mexico was amazing. It was short but sweet, it was so good to see Granni and Papa, and Brendan and Sarah, and oh yes those beautiful girls. The range of vocabulary those girlies have is incredible! They are so fun and precious. Also…nothing can beat authentic mexican food! One of my favorite moments was the first morning that we were there precious Grace came downstairs and whispered to me “wake up, Ellen,” I then motioned to her to climb into bed, and she climbed in and snuggled with me. I love family. We definitely missed everyone in England.  After mexico we drove up to Santa Barbara to visit old friends. That was great, and Santa Barbara is as gorgeous as ever. We most definitely got our fill of Chipotle! I got to do a little shopping which is always fun! We walked along the beach observing the “Art Walk” I fell in love with this beautiful painting. I waited for the artist to be done with a client and then asked how much it cost. For some reason I assumed that it would be cheaper than in a gallery, let’s just say I was most definitely wrong…haha. After a couple days of fun times with friends we made our way up to San Francisco. While there Peter gave us a 3 mile walking tour of the city it was so cool. I also had the best iced coffee EVER! Then that night we went to a giants game, which was a blast, minus the mind numbingly cold wind. Then the next day we were off. Up the PCH we went the Northern California coast in unbelievable. We drove through the gorgeous redwoods and spent the night in Fort Brag, CA with a beautiful view of the Ocean. The next morning it was onto Medford, OR. It was so cool to see all the mayer memories. What a neat town. We woke up the following day at the crack of dawn to drive to crater lake. Unfortunately when we got there it was blowing snow like crazy, we could not even get out of the car  :(. So onto Seattle we went. What an amazing city! We had yummy sushi, then drove around town. Wish we had more time there. Then finally we made our way back to good old Montana. I must say it is so good to be home. I have realized that this big city girl, is really starting to see the sweet positives in a small town. So not jaded. It was wonderful to go to our church today. John ran the “Icebreaker” which is a 5 miler race here in town. It was snowing so that was a little kick to the race. Amazingly John still managed to run it 2 minutes faster than his goal…GO JOHNNY! Then we came home, and while John took a 3 hour, yes I said 3 hour, bath (he likes to read in it) I cleaned the house did the laundry, grocery shopped, and started putting together John’s lunch for tomorrow. All in all it was a very productive day!! So so good to be home. Pictures of our trip to follow!!