Biker Geeks and Baby Withdrawal

This Saturday, Russ and I had our second date since the arrival of Ivy 4 weeks ago. (By the way, thank you to Mom and Carla for watching Ivy so that we could go out to watch a movie on Wednesday).

Russ started working for Übermind back in April and works with some awesome people. Some of which planned to go on a group motorcycle ride and I was invited to go with them! We had to be down to the office in Freemont at 9am which meant the grandparents were gracious enough to catch a 6:20am ferry from Kitsap. We went over the basic nervous parent routine of where things are and what to expect. How weird it was to explain child care to a child care educator/lactation consultant. Then we were off!

When we got to Übermind we met up with 4 of his co-workers, Achim, Michael, Eden and Jean. There were 3 of us girls, but I was the only one that was driving! We had a vague destination in mind: somewhere on the Olympic peninsula. On the ferry we decided we should go to Hurricane Ridge and stop for food in Port Angeles.

The ride out was BEAUTIFUL. I love going over the Hood Canal Bridge. I have a little fear of bridges, but somehow I've made my peace with this particular one. Maybe it's the fact that it's a floating bridge so don't feel so high up. Maybe I just am intrigued by the mechanics of how it's able to float a section out of the way in order to let boats through. Or maybe it's just the span of water that it covers that lets me get used to the idea of being on a bridge in the first place. Whatever the reason I LOVE that bridge. The weather was just perfect, sunny, but not too hot. The wind did try to be a little obnoxious, but for the most part it played nice.

By the time we reached Port Angeles and had eaten lunch I was starting to really miss baby girl and my body was letting me know it. I kind of anticipated this so I brought my pump. What I didn't bring was a power supply. So we bid our party goodbye and headed back home through Kingston. I felt like we were flying on the way back, but I still enjoyed the views as we rode through Discovery Bay and past Fat Smitty's (too bad riding a motorcycle doesn't burn off 400,000 calories)

We got home around 6pm exhausted. All I wanted to do was cuddle and snuggle with my little bug, but someone else beat me to it. I can't believe we were away for 10 hours! We had such a wonderful time. We're so blessed to have the support so that we can still go on adventures as a couple, but I'm more excited for the day that Ivy can join us.