alas, i have finally reached the last page of my vacation blogging… i hear the great collective sigh of relief. don’t pretend you didn’t participate 
i would like to preface this post with how much i loved whidbey island. if i could scoop up all of my loved ones and relocate them there, i would. i might even go with them. i will even admit to a few tears the night before we left. MIGHT…
deception pass was NOT the last excursion for the dale family, but since sweet little cutie pie got sick, she and i opted out of the mt baker trip on the last day. deception pass is beautiful… here are a few highlights:
while the pass may have been deceiving, the beauty was anything but. charlie took the older kids on a hike (which i was ASSURED was safe… until i found out otherwise), so i found an awesome piece of driftwood that God left for me to sit upon and ponder, and it was the perfect loungechair. it also had cool patterns on it… apparently God is into form AND function:
i’ll give a dollar and a beach rock to the person who gives the best “what i see in the driftwood” comment.
here’s mia in action:
here’s cousin aubrey showing some brotherly love to mia, which i hope compensates some for my apparent inability to bear sons:
i guess i have held on to this last post because of a refusal to let go of this place. but, as all good things must come to an end… i will close with a path picture. it reminds me that endings aren’t always as they appear… there is always something after… even if we don’t see it from where we currently find ourselves standing.
we’ll meet again,
don’t know where, don’t know when,
but i know we’ll meet again
some sunny day…
