Huxley Reeve Zinn's (First) Big Adventure

Wow! It has been a blue sky maternity/paternity leave, for sure. After two weeks of enjoying Kodiak and HRZ, we took our show on the road. Huckleberry Pie, Paxson Boodah, and Stoko Loco Joker handled the trip with flying colors. We visited many friends and family members in two countries (El Salvador and Honduras), six states (Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Washington, California, and Texas). To everyone we saw, thank you for the adventures!

And to top it all off, we've been welcomed home with the most glorious Kodiak sunshine you could imagine. We are entering our 6th straight day of cloudless skies. Feels like summer! Actually, far better than most of last summer! We are all sporting Kodiak sunburns, after spending the last few days at various Kodiak beaches. Yes, sunny and 45 is our version of paradise.

Back to our trip... we had much to fear as we traversed security in Anchorage with two screaming toddlers on lock-down, and a slightly colicky baby in our bjorn. But our fears were unfounded! All the flights were a breeze, amazingly. The kiddos slept or were happy for most of the long flights. And Huxley's colic seemed to disappear as soon as we were on the road.

Pictures, pictures, pictures... well, that is kind of a long story. We left our camera battery charger in Davis, California, so we are weak on shots after that point. The good news is that we were so enamored by Greg and Sonja's camera that we bought one. And it takes awesome pictures. So since we've been back here, we are back into taking good pictures.

We only took a few shots in Anchorage, but it was a lovely day. We dropped some Sarah Pale off at Steve's house, visited Natalie at the courthouse, and hung out with Team Wilyo. We enjoyed some tasty uppity Fire Island bread products before hitting the skies for Portland.

(We might have to get back to our Golden Donut roots for our bread-product fix next time.)

Portland was rainy of course. But a few hours out of town, we saw the largest shooting star of all time. Genevieve: Hey, check out that shooting star! Dawson: Where? Genevieve: Over there. Dawson: Where? Genevieve: Right there. Dawson: I see it. Genevieve: Wow, it is still going!

We now each have approximately 36 wishes that will come true. Don't worry, we'll be sure to share our lottery winnings with you. And please, enjoy the world peace!