These last couple weeks have been crazy!! My project allowed for one last video shoot this fiscal year and boy was it in a cool place - Melbourne. We planned this video shoot in two weeks and before I knew it I was on a plane from San Fran to Australia. Luckily, I'm actually a really good traveler and I don't take that for granted. One happy sleepy pill and I'm out for a good 7-8 hours, which is great because the leg from California to Australia was 14 hours. For me, it was more like a 6 hour flight. When I arrived, I was super impressed with Melbourne's architecture, culture, style and overall friendliness. It was the first day of winter when I touched down but I wasn't taken back too much with the 55 degree weather, I thought of it as good preparation for Seattle the following week . I actually had a Seattle trip booked weeks prior during the same timeframe so I ended up going from Melbourne directly to Seattle to spend some time in the beautiful Pac NW. The week I was in Australia, Richard had a sales conference in Jacksonville , Florida. As much as it wasn't planned, it worked perfect to both travel the same week. Richard stayed at the TPC Sawgrass Marriott in Florida, it sounded like a beautiful place - much warmer than my winter solstice in Melbourne! Richard met me in Seattle the following week and we were able to spend a week together in Seattle with friends and family. It was nice to be home in Seattle for the July 4th holiday. Although we didn't make it up to Roach Harbor this year, it was delightful to spend a day on the lake with our friends Kelly & Jake, have BBQ's with the family and toast to America's birthday! The entire week was filled with lots of running around and we had plans almost everyday with someone. A couple highlights from this Seattle trip for me was Tyler's annual 3rd of July party, Karrie and Steve's wedding, homemade pizza night with Crystal and OJ, meeting Brittany & Scott's perfect baby boy Axel, a family run (with Niki) around Green lake, BEAUTIFUL Seattle weather, seeing everyone at Projectline, visiting with my Dad and being able to spend time with my sister who will be going back to Pullman in 4 weeks for Senior year! Here are some photos from Melbourne...couldn't bring the fancy camera due to size but my little Lumix Ricahrd gave me for my b-day did the trick!
...and that's a wrap! 
The only tough part of being away for the last 2 weeks was keeping up on my half marathon training. The Napa to Sonoma half marathon is coming up very quickly, July 17th. I must admit my evenings in Seattle and Melbourne were not exactly filled tracking mileage. I did manage to run a bit on the treadmill at the hotel and twice in Seattle but other than that my running shoes stayed pretty cool. Before I left I was up to 9 miles - I'm headed out this evening when it cools down (currently 93 degrees in Danville), wish me luck!
