good times and family fun...

friday i had an egd, which is basically when they stick a scope down your throat to look around at your stomach. i got it to try and figure out why i keep having random HORRIBLE pain. they gave me a good dose of versed and phenegren which made me sleep all through the rest of friday until about 10am the next day.

so saturday morning just involved me having no desire to do anything more than putz around and read. jason had other ideas…he decided, around 11am, that he wanted to see the beach, i suggested deception pass, but nope he wanted a real ocean beach and determined we should take a trip to long beach (yes a 4+ hour trip). i grumped about, whined, offered other suggestions but was eventually steamrolled into going by my whole family.

i am NOT a spontaneous person. i NEED to plan. i need to know the details (yes, it’s a control issue and i am ok with that). even 24 hours would have been enough time, but no, it had to be right then. jason said i didn’t have to do anything, just sit back while he drove and then read while he and the girls hung out on the beach. we’d worry about where we’d stay the night once we were there, maybe we’d even camp on the beach (can you feel the horror that statement caused me?). we'll bring the dogs, they will love it. well about 12noon we hit the road. the trip there was uneventful other than stopping various times out of necessity (like to get iced-tea). we got to long beach around 5pm and went right to the beach. jason LOVES the idea of driving on the beach so of course he heads right out there with the back of the van open and the girls dangling their feet out (not something i approved of but no one listened to me). eventually he decided to park and drove into the softer dry sand and you guessed it WE GOT STUCK. now in jason's defense there were a bunch of other cars on the dry sand so it could have been doable, but not for our van. so the girls and jas got out, started digging and pushing (with the help of a not to happy with us police officer) and we got back on the wet sand. we drove a bit, parked on the side of the hard sand and everyone but me decided to head over to the water.well, it was really windy outside (yes, very much like the washington coast always is) and the beach ball jas had brought suddenly flew away. i can't say i didn't find it hilarious to watch jas run all the way down the beach trying to catch that ball. he actually caught it once and then it got away again. he eventually caught it in the dunes. i personally would have just let it go, but that's just me.

i, being the wonderful wife i am, decided to follow him with the car and pick him up. he ended up right by an exit from the beach so i headed to that exit...where i promptly got stuck in the dry sand that exists between the wet sand and the road. so with some help (one poor guy got a blast of sand in his face) we got out of the sand AGAIN but i was definitely DONE with being on the beach. jas and the girls wouldn't leave though so we hung out while they played for a little while in the water. the rest of our evening was pretty uneventful with dinner and go-carts. well, except for some some creep trying to kill kial by running her off the go-cart track. still, not super stressful or chaotic.

jas and the girls wanted to have a fire on the beach. i wanted to go to the motel. nothing about freezing to death on the cold beach sounded appealing to me. so they dropped me off at around 10pm and headed out for their pyrofest. i figured they'd be back around midnight. i was rereading twilight so i didn't really start to worry until about 1am. i tried calling jas but i kept getting his voicemail. by 2am i was in a complete panic. rationally i knew they were probably stuck again (because after getting stuck twice who wouldn't want to drive on the beach AGAIN), but in my mind some crazy murderer had snuck up on them and killed my whole family. FINALLY about 3am i got a text message from jas saying they were stuck and it shouldn't be long because they were only 5 feet from the road. they didn't get back to the motel until around 4am.

in case you thought this was the end of the story you are sadly mistaken! i still want to tell you what happened on the beach according to the girls, with a little commentary from jas.
...to be continued!