| One last visit.... |
Last weekend, PJ flew up to Seattle to visit before he deploys again. He arrived on Thursday night and we spent Friday tying up a few loose ends before he leaves. We took Makena to the Everett Children's Museum which by the way was AWESOME! I'll post photos later. I have recently taken most of my photos off of my computer and put them on discs so that my computer isn't so full of photos. It's running much better. Anyhoo- we had lots of fun on Friday. PJ and I made dinner on Friday night for my family. We had pasta and crab stuffed mushrooms. PJ's pasta dish was very very spicy, but it had amazing flavor! The stuffed mushrooms were delectable and all was good. Friday night we were hit with a hard storm and around 3am the power went out. We live in densely wooded area so it's not completely uncommon during a windstorm to lose power for a day or two. The response time has become better with the power company in recent years with the expansion of more homes in our area. Luckily by 10 or 11am the power came back on. PJ and I left for Seattle and some shopping. Makena was having a day with Grandma and Grandpa.
We first hit Bellevue Square, where PJ took me to Coach for an anniversary gift. I got this purse in black and LOVE it. It's much larger than my other black purse. I was on the fence if I wanted it in Brown/White or Black. But since black goes with almost everything I thought that would be pretty good. I'll have to get a white purse for the spring though. I'm thinking of this one. But we'll see. Then we shopped around for some other clothes and misc. items for us and then headed to Seattle where we stayed at the Edgewater. We had a wonderful dinner at 'The Met'. Chateaubriand, then met up with my friend Leslie and her boyfriend Zack. The four of us went to the Highway 99 Blues Club and had a great time. The company was great and the entertainment was exciting.
Sunday - Superbowl for the Seahawks of course! We headed back to my family's house and PJ made his famous chili. Too bad the Seahawks lost :( - not that I can't complain about some of the calls of course!
Monday was a difficult day. We pretty much spent it lounging around and hanging out. PJ had to be at the airport around 4pm. Saying good-bye was difficult this time. Well it's always difficult. It was more difficult for Makena than it has been in the past. She understands that PJ is leaving now and they have become even closer in the past year. We had him home for exactly a year. He arrived home on Feb 6 last year and left on Feb 6th from Seattle this year. :(
It was finally time for PJ to go through Security. We said our good-byes then Makena had to say good-bye to PJ. I was forced to hold myself together, because I could see it was going to be hard for Makena. We kept telling Makena that PJ would come back when she was in Kindegarten. She'll be 5 1/4 when he comes home (hopefully it won't be longer than that). She gave him one last hug and I had to pull her off of him. She was screaming like I hadn't seen her done with him before. She didn't want to let go. She was sobbing hysterically and couldn't get control of herself. It was very difficult not to lose it myself. We stood there and watched him go through security. He turned around looked to Makena and pointed to his eye, then to his heart then to her. They've always done this with each other, they do this to say... "I Love You". |
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