Week in Review

April 15

YEAH! Tax season is finally over! And we made it through unscathed. James was a real trooper having to do more than his fair share of chores and doggy parenting. I owe him a huge thank you for being so great! He makes such a great house-husband!

April 17

Our great friend from Boise arrived today. It was so great to have him come stay with us. We took him to dinner at our favorite beach fron resturaunt and watched an incredible sunset. We had plenty of beach time and lots of relaxing. Sonse is also an accountant so he welcomed some time to just relax and unwind. We didn't do any touristy things, just ate out a few times and played at the beach.

April 23

Bunco! My new friend Nicole hosted her first bunco party. It was such a blast. It was my first time ever playing. There were 12 ladies, which was great, it was so fun to have a girls night and meet some new people. Believe it or not, but I actually won! James was pretty excited when I came home with $50 more than I left the house with! We had a great time and everyone has decided that we need to do it once a month!

April 25

Our beach made nation wide news and history. There was a fatal shark attack at our beach early Friday morning. The man who was killed was our neighbor, we had not had the chance to meet him or his family but our neighborhood will surely not be the same. It was so eery going home for lunch today. There were Coast Guard helicopters hovering and news choppers too. Lots of news vans, James was even interviewed for the news. The attack happened in the exact spot where we go swimming and surfing every time. All of the beaches in our area are closed for the weekend, they are patrolling the area by air to see if they can spot the shark. They are just trying to see if he is making his way back out to the ocean. I haven't quite figured out how I feel about going surfing yet. I was already kind of scared about everything in the ocean, and now even more so. It was very strange watching the news and seeing our beach, our house, and our neighborhood on CNN.

April 26

I finally made an appointment to begin my personal training. I met my trainer today, it was incredible. I'm going to get my money's worth for sure! After training I rode The Hello Kitty to this cute little health foods cafe and got us take out for lunch. Then we went down to the beach to layout. On a typical hot day the beach has all kinds of people playing and having a good time. There are usually large groups of people surfing, swimming and playing in the waves. So it was very strange at the beach today, not a soul was in the water. It got pretty hot, so a lot of people would go in, up to their knees, but that was about it. We walked out about that far, and were trying to figure out how tall a 17 foot long shark is, we decided it had to be atleast four feet tall, so we both felt pretty safe staying in water that was less than two feet deep. And having the Coast Guard helicopters in eye sight helped too. We also saw a very large group of dolphins playing in the surf. Around here they say if there are dolphins there won't be any sharks, but if you see a seal to get out of the water because there will surely be a shark coming. I belive it, there were a group of seals on our beach Friday morning when the shark attack happened. There have never been seals on our beach before. We were both happy to see the dolphins back!

This week will fly by. I have my second session with my personal trainer on Wednesday. And James and I are hosting an art party on Friday night. So I have lots of house cleaning and appetizer planning to do before then. I'm so excited to have this art party. I have wanted to do it for so long! I'll write all about it later, with pictures!!