On Wednesday at 2:00 pm, we bid adieu to Justin.

On Thursday, we said hello to them:

Yay!  Amy and Derek are here!  The girl Bach and the white Bach!

Many adventures to be recapped tomorrow.

(Disclaimer: I hate picture-less posts, but this is one.  I suck.)

This weekend was quickly devoured by a last-minute trip to Orange County.  It was a bit hectic, but even a hectic trip that involves seeing some of my favorite people in the world is one of my favorite ways to spend a weekend.

Since everything was so last minute, there were a couple things that I didn’t end up accomplishing.  I had planned on spending most of Friday baking some goodies for a bake sale organized by the Capitol Hill Knitting Group here in Seattle to benefit the Obama Campaign, but packing and cleaning devoured my day and I ended up just donating napkins and trashbags.  Definately not as delicious, but useful nonetheless.  (For those wondering, the bake sale was a success!  The group raised over $400!)

The trip didn’t start off great.  We had different flights on different airlines: Mike was flying on Virgin America while I was on Southwest.  Needless to say, I was jealous.  It turned out that I didn’t need to be though, because his flight ended up getting delayed over an hour AND the RED system crashed as soon as the plane took off, so he didn’t even get to take advantage of the free TV, movies and games.  Boo.

Eventually, he landed, we met up, and our friend Justin was kind enough to pick us up, even though we had flown into LAX at 11:30 PM.  Thank you Justin!  We can’t wait til you come up to visit in a few weeks!

Even though we were tired, we decided to stop by our old house to say hi to our friends/best tenants ever, Derek, Ben and Jimmy, who share the house along with Justin.  Seriously, our house could not be left in better hands.  What was supposed to be a quick hello turned into us staying til 1:30 AM playing Castle Crashers with Ben.  If you have XBox Live, you should download this immediately.  Pure cartoon-y princess-saving bliss.

Eventually though, we were completely exhausted, so we headed to my parents’ house, where we stayed for the weekend, and passed out immediately.  It was a tiring but entertaining start to an equally exhausting but good-to-be-home trip.  I’ll continue with more entertaining recaps of Saturday and Sunday tomorrow, when I’m a bit more well-rested.

I already posted the “Jimmy” hat (haha), which reminded me about my favorite baby brother in law and got me all weepy a few days after moving up here. Today I present you with another little reminder of something in SoCal that I miss indescribably (though this one made me laugh instead of cry, which is good):

Michael BACK? Seriously? Derek, you’ve known Mike for 12 years. And you are friends with all of his siblings. And there are only 4 letters to remember.

::shaking head:: Oh Derek, I can’t wait to see you again. You are my favorite hairy overgrown child.