Holy Hiatis, Batman!

After a week away from Blogging, Working, Working Out, Eating Healthy, and daily Facebooking... I've made it back to civilization (of sorts). Trust me when I tell you that it's HARD getting back into the full swing of normal living after such a break.; especially at 4:15am this morning when we got up and headed to the gym after checking our weight (gain) last night before bed!

Rich and I made it to, and back from, the West Coast safe and sound without one hitch in our airline travels! As a matter of fact, we arrived (going out) 30 minutes before our appointed arrivals - even all the way to LAX! The ONLY snag we hit was with the rental car. We get to the rental place and are given a 'section' (of which we were already upgraded to because we are frequent renters), we go out to the lot and low and behold...not one car in lot 4! WTH? Oh, but we can take any car from section 5...it's 100% full with minivans! No Thanks! "But it will take a while and we are not sure when a Section 4 vehicle will be available". Don't care...we are not taking a minivan!!! So we waited for only about 20-25 minutes but it paid off and we got a snazzy Altima that was saaaweet

After hitting the first In-N-Out that we could find, our trip officially started!

We head out of LA to the High Desert, visiting our youngest son along the route for a little bit (he had school), before getting to our oldest son's home. Our days and nights were spent just enjoying our kids and grandson (he's 3 1/2) a great deal; without any predetermined agenda whatsoever! The guys went golfing and shopping and my daughter-in-law and I did our own thing...for 4 1/2 days.

Our grandson kept us on our toes and laughing! Thank goodness his Papa had a lot of energy because he sure required it! Still in recovery mode I wasn't able to run after him and pick him up to play, but we got some good quiet time together to play legos, talk, play with his toys and just have 'our' time. Clearly if you put me and Rich in a room and tell him to run to his favorite...I would get left in the dust in a heartbeat! Grandmama, who??

Our last day we headed to Venice Beach for a walk-around before dinner in LA. After saying goodbye to our kids and grandson in the parking lot of that little Mexican restaurant (that's just so wrong on so many levels), Rich and I dropped off our nephew and headed to our hotel near LAX to catch our early morning flight.

Before we knew it, morning came and we breezed right through check-in and LAX security without so much as more than a few minutes wait; we were sitting on row 24 of our first leg to home. The trip was over in a flash and each mile flown was one less mile back to reality and the life that awaited us home in Alabama.

The trip was better than we could have ever imagined!