The Office is Finished!

We completed the office before leaving for vacation. It was a good idea at the time, but while I finished painting the office on Saturday my amazing husband was working in the bathroom.  We spent the entire day on house projects and started packing for our trip at 9 p.m. eww! We would've felt great having accomplished so much if we hadn't been bone weary.
Ta-da....

Isn't he the best!?!? I'll post the full bathroom transformation later...

At least we're back to normal in the office.  Did you see the best part of the office transformation? My loving, terrific, caring, thoughtful husband put in an overhead light for me.  He is so sweet, he has spent quite a bit of his vacation completing honey do tasks. He knew I would be spending much more time in there soon, since I'll be back in school. Yikes, I thought I was done being a student. But no, one more year of being a student and then hopefully I'll be the teacher.  What a turn around that will be!

It is so great to have a light in the office.  We had a borrowed floor lamp before, but it gave off terrible light. Our friend needed it back, so we were without a light source.  Enter my saint of a husband who installed a $6 light.  Could it get any better? We already had the Romex so it was just the light and light bulbs we had to buy. What an amazing transformation.  Between that and the new paint color I will be much happier to spend time in there this Fall. Thank you honey!

Mickey Vacations

We were out of town at the happiest place on Earth. Yay for Disneyland!!!!  We went just the two of us and had a blast.  We enjoyed going on all of the rides and are amazing at hitting them all quickly. We managed to go on every ride we wanted and Tower of Terror and California Screamin' twice. This was no small feat when most rides had a forty minute wait.

Notice how one side of the car is empty? The seat belts on that side weren't working so they removed all of the riders on the left side from our car to another one.  That was not reassuring to those of us they left on this car. It was so eerie and in keeping with the attitude of the operators on this ride and the story of the hotel, that I couldn't help but feel that it was done on purpose to add to the ride. As terrified as I was, we stayed on and had a blast.

We also hit up the old favorites including the Mad Tea Party. It's so fun to be in control and make yourself feel dizzy. It also takes me right back to my childhood.  Isn't that what makes Disneyland so amazing?

It's a Small World is one of my favorites. It was especially enjoyable on a 90 degree day.

The last time we went to Disneyland was at Christmas time.  It was fun to see the more traditional version.  We didn't remember the Disney characters interspersed with the Small World people, yet we saw Peter Pan, Lilo, Ariel, Woody and Jesse and many more on this ride.  I love how there's always something new to see even though I've been at least seven times.  It also feels like a comfortable place where you are always happy despite running to beat crowds, melting in summer heat and feeling that everything is expensive.
As always, we had a wonderful time together on vacation even though the drive seemed to be unending. I am so NOT a road trip person any longer.  I felt like a five year old, are we there yet?!?!?!