Busy couple of days. After sitting so much driving and all on Thursday and Friday, I had a slow start of day as needed more time with heating pad on back/hip area to help decrease the soreness. Sitting long time, ie more than an hour, causes the muscles to tighten up and be very upset at being in sitting position stretch. Do exercises/stretches to help, but really need to not sit for two hours driving.
Anyway had another long driving day to attend a Washington State Twilighters [WST] monthly gathering. This one was a birthday party for Melissa at Black Bear in Federal Way. Took my cameras, but decided to wait until on 104 to stop and take pictures. Before that was close enough to get to anytime. After that not much of interest along the road side. I didn't want to go too far afield since I did have some place to be at a certain time. Did stop at Silverdale and found the Trader Joe's. They were out of roasted unsalted sunflower seeds. Did get some of my favorite chocolate items. Rationing them. Along with some triple brewed ginger beer.
The Tacoma Narrows bridge is toll going eastbound direction. The bridge is high off the water, but high side railings prevents seeing much, which helped with my height anxiety. Google maps gave adequate directions to find the restaurant. There was a Michael's close by, went in and found some earring post backings to replace one lost from little owls earrings. Then to the restaurant and joined a couple of others already there. Turns out there were 17 scheduled to come. We had a private room for one long table.
There is much I could write about my Twilight family and maybe I will eventually. For now, I will say I've felt such a warm welcome for the move here from my Twilight friends/family. It was nice to feel and see that in person from the few that were there aware of my recent move. It was nice meeting some others that I didn't know beforehand.
I was my usual fairly quiet self with so many conversations going on and hard to hear any specific one. Dinner was good, it was served as I needed. However it turned out even though I pointed to the full serving size item, the waitress wrote down the smaller size. My grey hair gave my age away and so she assumed I wanted the smaller size. Not happy. She wanted to make it up with some take home, but long drive and small refrig that wasn't really a good option. Pie was also out being diabetic and gluten free. I politely turned it all down. Maybe should have given the pie to someone else?
The drive over and sitting for dinner took a toll. In major pain before Silverdale. Stopped and walked around Target. Stopped at 7 Cedars Resort/Casino for walk around the car a few times. Barely made it to motel without another stop. Thankfully Jean was at front desk and stopped, stood chatting for a bit after texting that I'd arrived back here ok. I did have to find my phone first....getting purse out of car it got turned over and phone fell out. So got some walking back and forth to car and lobby to find it.
It was a good day. It was worth the pain to go to the WST. I might not want to do it every week, but willing to do drive over that way every month or two at least. I was too sore to sit and prepare this last night. And now too sore to sit and do Sunday's post.
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