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The weather was so pretty most of the time I was out in California. There were a couple days of rain but mostly it was sunny and in the mid 50′s. It was perfect spring weather, at least for the Chicago area. Of course I’m completely jealous that that is normal winter weather for them. I’m still trying to figure out why exactly we don’t live there…

One of the nice days we went out to the football field on base so Hunter and Brandon could practice their soccer skills.

Brandon blocking one of Hunter’s shots. I’m pretty sure Hunter got a couple good goals though.

I’m not sure if he meant to wink at me or if the sun (which was directly behind me) was in his eyes.

Brandon ccould kick the ball seriously high and was great at heading the ball too. As you can see, Hunter was not at all thrilled about the idea of a soccer ball flying at his head.

Liz and I enjoyed sitting on the sidelines and soaking in the sun.

Hunter had a great time. He’s going to be a good little soccer player.

This is apparently not the first time Brandon played this prank on Hunter.

His second reaction, when he’s expecting to get sprayed, is actually funnier than the initial prank. Hope you all enjoyed a little laugh at my nephew’s expense.

I’ve already written a little bit about my trip to California. Now that I’m home and on my own computer I want to post some of my pictures from my time there.

As I mentioned before my sister cooks a lot. It’s also delicious. The first night I was there we made homemade pizza.  And when I say homemade I mean we seriously made everything from scratch.

We kneaded the dough.

We grated the cheese.

Even the sauce was made from scratch.

It was so good! Try not to drool all over the keyboard. *wink*

Here is the happy family, anxious to dig into that yummy pizza.

Liz liked it so much she got a little too excited and actually broke her fork in half. Look out for her, even she doesn’t know her own strength!

This has given me a serious craving for pizza now. Unfortunately it’ll be hard to find anything quite as yummy. Stay tuned tomorrow for a video of a prank that got played on Hunter.

As promised, here are my Cancun pictures. My friend Kelly and I went down to Cancun with two goals: relax and soak up as much sun as possible. Mission accomplished.

We were welcomed with champagne. Here it is sitting on the ledge of the window of our room.

Here is a better picture of the view from our room. Gorgeous! We enjoyed the view for a minute or two and then got down to the pool as quickly as possible.

These are the chairs down by the hotel’s infinity pool. We spent most of our time on them and…

in the hammocks down by the beach and….

in the pool.

Me soaking up the sun and gorgeous view from the edge of the infinity pool. It was heavenly. (I realize it doesn’t quite fit in my blog format but I love the picture so much I’m posting it anyway.)

We also drank plenty of delicious, frozen, tropical drinks. Here I am with a piña colada. Don’t mind my crazy hair, it was windy.

Kelly reading on the beach. That red flag means no swimming in the ocean because the the wind caused the waves to be really rough.

We still got to walk with our feet in the water and enjoy the views though.

Yay for Cancun!

A bird flying across the beautiful blue sky.

Kelly soaking up the sun.

Here we are enjoying champagne while watching the sun set over the water.

I loved every minute of my trip and left feeling completely refreshed. I can’t wait to go back.

It’s so good to be home again. I only ended up getting about 2 1/2 hours of sleep. I had to catch a 6:14am flight and the airport was an hour away. Following the get-there-two-hours-before-your-flight rule that meant leaving at 3:00am. I don’t have my crew ID anymore, because of being on furlough, so I always try and give myself plenty of time to get through security. Well, apparently I’ve never flown out of an airport as small as Fresno’s because when I got there at 4:00am security wasn’t even open yet! When it finally opened around 4:30 there were still only about four passengers there. So, I’ve learned my lesson and next time I have to fly out of there early in the morning I can let all of us sleep a little more.

The flights home were uneventful. I slept most of the way from Fresno to Denver, thank goodness. Even in a first class seat it can be hard to sleep because they don’t recline very much more than a regular seat and my head always seems to bob and wake me up. Thanks to only having two hours of sleep I had no trouble sleeping almost the entire flight and woke up feeling fairly refreshed.

The worst part of my trip was lugging my bag through Denver airport with no hook. If any of you have had to walk through the B concourse in Denver you know what I mean. I had to walk from gate B84 – B36. Normally that would be fine but, with my bags stacked on top of each other, all the weight was on my forearms. I am no Popeye no matter how much spinach I eat, it hurt! It didn’t help that I only had about 40 minutes before my next flight departed. I walked as fast as I could though (thank God for moving walkways!) and even had time to stop in the luggage store. They didn’t have any j-hooks but they had a strap that served the same purpose. Too bad the luggage store was right next door to B36. I am so glad I have that stupid strap now though until Liz can ship me my j-hook. Seriously, for those of you who haven’t tried it, it’s the difference of 30 lbs supported all on your arms to all the weight being at the bottom of the luggage so you don’t feel like you’re carrying anything. It’s incredible and I will never take that darn thing for granted again.

The flight out of Denver to home was also smooth. I didn’t sleep that flight but I relaxed, ate my fruit and cheese plate and read a book. I even got in a little early. It’s really great to be home. I’m pretty sure Phoebe missed me. She was so happy to see me that she threw up all over the couch. Such a sweet welcome home gift, don’t you think?

I figured out how to get my pictures to display in order and have therefore started my Cancun post. My photo editor keeps crashing on me though so I’m going to try and work on them some more in the morning. I’ll also set up posts of pictures from my days in California. For now I need to sleeeep!