Stowaway for the week.

It's not very often...well, it is a lot less often than what we thought moving to Ohio would allow, but a tag-a-long trip was in order and at first I said "no, I can't just up and take off." David quickly shot back with, "We talked about it at work, you should tag-a-long so I can celebrate your Birthday with you in the one place you love the most." I immediately felt guilty! He travels a lot without me, and one of the pluses to moving to Ohio was that I would be able to travel more with him...the last trip was to Vegas in January of 2011. So I asked myself, "Why not? Can't I figure out a way to do this?" immediately, I juggled classes, got Emma snuggled down at the dog sitter's and Saturday morning, me and my great big Vera Bradley duffel stowed away to Virginia Beach!




Please understand that David does still have to work. 3-4 days of this trip. But, all the other free time is mine! This morning was one of those working days. Actually, he had to leave, as most of you guys know I call anything before 10am, "the buttcrack of dawn!", but he left in the what I would call the middle of the night...4:15am. Gently he kissed me goodbye on the forehead and quietly slipped out. I am sure he was thinking i would sleep half the day away....MAN was he wrong! After he left I was wide awake...I remembered our room has the perfect view for sunrise, and I got excited that it was almost low tide and for the first time in my life, I was gonna be the crazy lady wandering the beach for sea shells! I slipped into my capri's, baseball cap and flip flops and like a thief in the night, I was off to score some awesome shells!!


I wandered the beach both ways for 45 minutes and could only find 2 common intact mollusk shells. As I walked, I said my morning prayers and I even added a simple little, "come on God...once in my life I bolt out here at low tide, can't you give me one fantastic shell?" The winds picked up, there wasn't one other soul on the beach, I was hungry, wanted coffee and couldn't get the sunrise out of my head. So, I gave up. I carried my 2 intact mollusk shells back to the room, made me some coffee and took my seat on the balcony. Lesson learned, we are necessary, special and unique just as we are, even if we are just a simple intact mollusk shell.
Wait...the winds were stronger, there was an odd darkness coming my way, and it brought with it sound....a morning storm :( here is what I waited up for;







And after my 5th cup of coffee and a brown sugar cinnamon pop tart..look what I discovered!!








Good things do come to those who wait. They aren't the terrific, awesome shots I wanted, but am still proud if them!
Tomorrow is my 45th Birthday and I know David thinks I just wanna sleep in...I made him swear to wake me if the sunrise looks the least bit promising!! Who knows, it almost always rains on my Birthday. You know what they say, April showers bring May flowers!