Breaking in My Writing Chops

How long has it been since I've written? 15 days? A month? The video uploads are much easier to upload. BUT! I told myself I would write, so here I go!

Chris's wedding and a big shaker!

After moving out, we went to our wonderful friend (and Bridesman) Chris's wedding!

We stayed (since we are now officially FUN-emloyed) at an Air BNB, which was the home of a VERY nice, very altruistic woman who rescued/fostered dogs. FOUR dogs. I know, I'm supposed to be a dog person. But when the dogs break down the door to your room at 7AM!!!! The dogs also were only indoor dogs, which was fairly difficult to breathe inside.

It was wonderful to spend one last hurrah with all the UCLA friends I've had and see some old friends from a long time ago! The wedding was beautiful, felt so short because it was so fun, and the MAYOR who married Chris and Lindsay was hilarious! We explored the beach, and then went to downtown LA for awesome street food breakfast (homemade sausage egg sandwiches). Since Terryn was a LITTLE hungover, we went to the nice dark Griffon Observatory, where we explored and hung out in the planetarium SUPER FUN!

When we came back, Jen--our wonderful Jen!--let us crash in her room. Slumber party! We slumbered pretty well--until the 3am wake-up from the Napa earthquake!!! We all woke up in Redwood City to the whole house shaking! We drove up the next morning to clear up the Mud Hut (Gregg's folk's house). Holy Smokes was everything upside down! There was a six mile crack down the levy. Their house is right on the river, and we lucked out that our house was super duper triple reinforced. The neighbor's houses were not so luck. One neighbor had a 30 gallon fishtank. One had his dock and boat swim away down the river. Not good!

We lucked out mostly with our stored stuff. Our stuff was on the second floor of a building in Napa, and the building next door in the storage area got red tagged. Ours was yellow, meaning no elevators and only 1 of the 3 staircases was ok. When walking down the hallway, some of the storage doors were bent like there had been someone inside trying to break out! Most of our boxes were ok, just everything kinda shifted about 45*. A few hours of grunt work was all it took.

We finished all the moving for the rest of the week. Then off to Bishop!

The Neighbors backyard--about 2 inches further from the river than before

The neighbor on the other side of the Mud Hut's dock. I think one piling might be a little bit shorter now that the shaker has shaken it.

Last view of the house.

I learned how to make fried chicken, gravy, biscuits, and green beans!