It's been hard with Jackson and Brandi living so far - but one of the things that compensates for it is I've probably seen Kim and Stephen more in the past 3 years than I have in the past 35 years. Kim and I have known each other since elementary school and have been best friends since high school. She got married and moved to Virginia when we graduated, they move to Vermont. We moved to West Virginia. Billrica for them, the Poconos for us. Oregon - Pennsylvania. We've been bouncing all over but we've never lost contact. Phone calls, letters, texts, Facebook, we rarely go more than a week without some contact even if it's just a sentence or a call on my way home from work.
All of our visits here they've missed just one. I cannot tell you how much I appreciate their taking the time to drive the 5 hours up to Whidbey Island to spend a couple of days with us twice a year. I know they'd love for us to come see Thieu home but they also understand how limited our time is with the girls and thier parents so they make the trek up to us. This time around they stayed in Coupeville, a small touristy waterfront town about 20 minutes from here. They did the AirBNB and were pretty pleased with it, $79 off season got them a lovely townhouse overlooking the water. They came over yesterday morning and we had a brunch with everyone. Delilah and Chloe were in their glory, all these adults paying attention to them plus all the bacon you could eat to boot. The girls are getting old enough that they remember people and were happily going from lap to lap.
After we went back to Coupeville just to walk around the village - I'm sure in the summer it's overrun with visitors! Lots of little gift and art stores, I bought a couple of things. There's a yarn and gift shop and I got a skein of hand dyed sock yarn, the owner told us the merchant community is very upset with the mayor who is allowing the street construction during the holiday shopping season. She said it's hard enough to stay afloat during the off season and now there's no parking and no through fair. After we finished shopping we headed back to Oak Harbor - you do NOT want to eat in Coupeville, it's super expensive! We had looked at one which appeared to be a local bar and grill so I pulled it up on Yelp. The reviews described it as a "local dive" and the lunch prices were about $20 a meal for what appeared to be standard bar fare. Yikes! The day was spent catching up, we literally talked all day about everything, it was wonderful. This morning we saw them for breakfast before hugging them tightly goodbye, I'm sad we really only get one day, but what a day we get.
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