just got back from the honeymoon of sorts a couple of days ago.......wish i was still there. it was warm and pretty and there were blue skies and the ocean lapping up the beach.
i had never seen the ocean before.
we went to south carolina for a few days. it was beautiful there. and warm. did i mention it was warm? it was much, much warmer than indiana.
before we left for s. carolina though there were a few days left to be spent with his sister and niece, so we spent a lot of time at his dad's or out driving around and showing stephanie (niece) different parts of town as if any of it could compare to living outside of l.a. we took stephanie to the castleton mall and then to jillian's in downtown indianapolis and let her play a ton of video games and then we all bowled. i kicked everyone's asses which was awesome. dude i bowled a 179...darrik would be so proud!!
took steph and kathy (sister-in-law) to the airport last wednesday and they went back to sunny california.
so we left for sunny south carolina thursday afternoon. the drive there was quite frightening. it seems that southern ohio is even more redneck than southern indiana, or even kentucky for that matter...and it rained all the way thru three entire states. we didn't get to the hotel (which was about 20 miles north of charleston, s.c.) until about 7:40 a.m. their time, after driving all afternoon and all nite and part of the morning...so needless to say we were exhausted and the guy at the counter making his random little jokes was less than amusing.
we went to folly beach so i could see the ocean for the first time. i of course instantly turned into a five year old and was running up the beach and jumping into the waves, etc, etc, etc...dave videotaped all of this so my adolescence will be immortalized forever. and you know what....i don't even care. it was beautiful. and the sand felt good on my toes. and the water was warm. and the smell was the cleanest smell in the whole world. and it was all so vast and endless. and loud. it was beautiful.
there were these little girls playing next to us...they had an inflatable raft. one little girl got in the raft and paddled out a few feet, then the wind caught her and she started yelling, "help!! pull me back in!! i'm going to get swept away!!" over and over even though she was only about three feet from the edge of the water. she kept yelling until the other little girl pulled her back in....i took pictures of them playing.
i also wrote in the sand and took pictures... i'll post some later when i have more time.
it was a lovely trip and i couldn't have asked for better. perfect in every way. the last nite we were there, we went down to folly beach again... there was a thin crescent moon and every star in the sky was out... the water was still warm and the wind had died down... so we walked on the beach under the stars and held hands and kissed...it was like a movie.
then we had to come back to indiana. where it's cold and rainy and oh yeah..............cold. and we had to go back to work yesterday. and........it's still cold. blah.
went to the great oz yesterday morning and baby did not want to cooperate... every time oz would start to find the heartbeat.....the baby would move. about four times. it took forever. and even when she did get the heartbeat the baby would only stay still for about twenty seconds. the baby's kicked meladori off of my belly twice now....mela jumps up and lays down in my lap, and the baby kicks and kicks and kicks until she gets down....then stops. a feisty little one already, heheh.
tomorrow's the ultrasound.......i's excited. not so excited that it's at 8:45 in the morning...which means i have to get up at like 7 and start drinking water. cos you have to have a full bladder for the ultrasound. so other than the extreme early-ness and the extreme bladder discomfort it'll be a rockin day.
and then we start recording next monday.
so like...yay and stuff.
i'm gonna take my wonderful disgusting prenatal vitamin and go to sleep.
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"i need you as my way across my life / to spend these years / create a new thought / for i give you strength / and offer my heart / take these chains and hold them as ours"
