Tahoe Almost

I am in Northridge, Ca. , not quite where I thought I would be today. I am learning how to relax an go with the flow instead of stress about where I think I am suppose to be.

Yesterday.. I was up at 3:30am. I couldn't go back to sleep so I finished packing and loaded up the car. I left by 5:45am. Once I hit Picacho Peak I started to cry.. I was so happy that I actually was on my way!! The sunrise was awesome.

XM radio rocks and it made trip go by very quickly..

Before I left I made arrangements to meet my cousin Tim and his friend Jon.. we all use to hang out in my teens when my family visited CA. I learned how to waterski with them. I made it Seaport Village exactly at noon to meet them. Jon brought his 19 year old son. We had the greatest conversation and it was so nice to catch up with all of them. I know that things don't turn out the way we planned when we were kids.. but is amazing to me how they turned out!

After meeting with them I decided to go hang out at the beach until Marcie got off of work. Tim at the last second decided to go with me. He lead the way to Fiesta Island. It was fun to watch the surf/parachute sailors.. and the boats and waterskiers. Tim and I had an awesome conversation. He has had some bumps in the road and seems to have recovered quite well.. he looks great and says he is happy.

I headed over to Marcie's.. only 8 miles and it took just 45 minutes. The drivers here are AGGRESSIVE... I had to put on my big girl pants and dive in.. YIKES... talk about scary!!

Marcie is awesome.. she has the greatest house.. 1 bedroom with wood floors and a detached "yoga room" where I got to stay. On the patio outside the yoga room is lily pad covered pond with a waterfall. We went for a run, then went out for dinner. I think the name of the restaurant was called Alchemy, it is walking distance from her house. I had a chicken dish that tasted so good. We walked home. Marcie lives in DOWNTOWN San Diego. It is densely populated. It is very cool how people make great use of such small space together and don't actually kill each other from living so close. There is noise all of the time. There are planes going over all the time... I noticed that while having a conversation, when it gets loud, the conversation just pauses then resumes when the plane is done. It was very interesting. This morning I got up took a shower.. had some nice coffee with Marcie and we both left with-in a few minutes of each other. She was ever so nice and it was wonderful to spend time with her.

I have tried twice to upload photos here.. and it will not let me.. so I will post them on facebook then post the link here. This makes me sad, cuz I talk about the things in the photos here.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=76099&id=1478181391&l=3b3795244d

I need to go take a break and go for a run.. the weather here is so beautiful. I am at my cousin Jimmy's house in Northridge. I won't be staying tonite.. but I will head out again after dark. It took me three hours to go 60 miles this afternoon.. I just don't want to try it again. He says the traffic will be bad if I go now. I will write more about my visit with him and my Uncle Jim later.

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE,
Jada