Sloggin'

Well. If there's one thing more painful than sitting through a TUESDAY, it's slogging through a Tuesday after vacation during a slow week when you've had virtually no sleep. Thank goodness for the free coffee card I had waiting in my mailbox when we got home from vacation - it just may have been my saviour this morning.

I think we took like...5 pictures of the entire week, just because we were too busy relaxing to bother bringing a camera. Basically, the entire week was BLISSFUL. We went winetasting, played in the pool, played Blackjack at the Casino, soaked in the spa at night, ate out for practically every meal (umm, AMAZING sushi place in Placerville, who knew?!), played Carcassonne and Ladderball, went hiking, did some kayaking and swimming in the lake, and even got in some skinnydipping in that lake OOPS DID I SAY THAT OUT LOUD. I'm still admiring my beautiful nails from my mani/pedi with my mom, and enjoying my slight tan from napping in the sun. Pretty much, our vacation was awesome and wonderful, and getting to spend time with my parents was an added bonus!

I still need to download the pics we took kayaking, but I'll post one if any of them turn out to be decent at all.

Last night Nolan and I drove down to the Monterey area for dinner with his extended family! This meant his uncle and girlfriend who live down there, his cousins who live in Australia and who Nolan hasn't seen in 8 years, and his aunt and uncle who are visiting from Holland. SUCH a fun time, albeit a very late evening for us. It just makes me wish that everyone lived a little closer so we could do it more often! Although we're stupid and forgot to bring our camera again, fortunately there were still some pictures taken on another camera, and I'm hoping I'll get a couple of those to post on here too...maybe? Please?

Nolan started his OB rotation yesterday, and the good news is that it's not as fast-paced as his last rotation, and that he gets every evening this week free, woohoo! Bad news is that the following 2 weeks he will be working exactly opposite hours from me, meaning we won't be within 100 feet of each other except for his one day off on the weekend. I guess Milo's the only beneficiary of this plan, since it means there will always be at least one person home with him, and he's still mourning the loss of his friends in Placerville now that he's all alone in the Bay Area again. Welcome home, indeed.