All Good Things Come To An End

It is a sad, yet wonderful feeling as good things come to an end. Jean is leaving today, sad, yet wonderful that she came and played, and played, and played.

Jean is amazing! She read an article about a park and off we went park hunting. She read an article about a restaurant and off we went to Anthony's Seafood Grill. She saw a road and off we went following the curve of the highway. She saw a plant, house, view, boat, bay, building, and off we went following the whims of Jean.

She reads, observes, notices, thinks, looks, ponders, and engages in just about everything around her, all the time keeping in touch with Cathy, Brittany, Chris and Kenny via text, Facebook, and calls.

All the time volunteering for cooking duties; Mexican crock-pot casserole, bacon, cookies. She made a pot load of chocolate chip cookies, but not enough for me to share at work. I got some grief at work when I wouldn't share my last six cookies. Heck I don't like them at work that much. Jean is amazing.

When I told the folks at work that I took Jean back to Central Market to have fun grocery store browsing, I thought they would make fun of us for such a silly activity. Man o man was I wrong. Instead they were all mad that I didn't take her to their favorite grocery store. Didn't you take her to Trader Joe's, didn't you take her to Haggen's, didn't you take her to World Market, Top Foods, geez I didn't know everyone had a favorite grocery store. Learn something new everyday.

We had fun being "saucy" photographing our mini adventures. Sometimes our mini mini mini adventures, and not being very adept we sometimes forgot to take pictures. We were always smug when we remembered. And being two old geezers let loose, sometimes we just didn't give a hoot and didn't bother. The only photograph I regret not capturing is a photograph of Connor. He is amazing.

Yep, Jean is packing up her groceries, her c-pap machine, her underwear and jacket and heading home. She is monitoring the Midwest weather hoping to slide in between storms, so far it is forecast rain not tornadoes.

What a wonderful unplugged time we had. Sibling time. Sister time. I only snuck out of work once. Ferry tolls are higher. The Mukilteo waterfront park is now going to charge for parking. Impromptu sons dinner was great. Lots of fog, rain and sunshine, we had some glorious days of sunshine to play in.

We didn't make it to Ma'Ono Fried Chicken and Whiskey, we found out it's not a Thai place it is a Hawaiian influenced place. Who knew it was a four star, make a reservation, only open at dinner, $40.00 a chicken plate place -- and only street parking. It is over in West Seattle around Alki Beach so we were going to go for lunch today on our way to the airport. Needless to say it presented some challenges. It is on our bucket list now.

Jean enjoyed seafood last night at Anthony's Seafood Grill, she had shrimp cocktail, clam chowder and garlic infused prawns. We ate our way up the food chain, first was Spuds, then Ivar's and then last night, oh yum yum.

What can you say when good times come to an end? It was great. It was fun. It was relaxed. Nothing particularly special but perfect for us. I can't hardly say good-bye Jean.

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In twenty-eight days I get to say Hello Julia.