oh the places you'll go

just a little day dreaming on this fine spring afternoon....

this saturday jeff and i (and perhaps a few others) are headed to coachella to see a spectacular line-up of musical people (PRAISES BE TO ROBERT AND ERICA!) and so y'all can look forward to some pictures of me in the indio sunshine, nice and sweaty.

i never imagined i'd go to coachella, this largely due to the fact that i'd never heard of it until a week or two ago, but there are some other hot spots i've had a hankering to visit for quite a while.

let's start with seattle.  my cousin margaret, oh what a dream.  she lives there with her husband o' love and munchkin  and nugget on the way, and i haven't seen her since august 2006.  maybe i'll run into dr. derek shephard while i'm there.

then there's texas.  some smallish branch off of dallas.  there resides heather, a darling friend/former roommate/2nd cousin, HER husband o'love, and her nugget on the way.  besides the pleasure of seeing heather, i've never been to texas, and have always been intrigued and somewhat amused by what i imagine it's like there.

and oh salt lake.  i've been there a billion times, but i haven't seen lani gates hock since october 3, 2006.  that was, incidentally, the night before i reported to the mtc.  i spent it at her wedding, and might i add, in the most lavish bridesmaid dress ever.  think belle in beauty and the beast, but cranberry red.  i could barely fit through the door frames for the poof.  it's not bad to dance at a wedding reception when you're a set apart sister missionary, is it?  when in rome! was my philosophy.  anyway, lani and her husband o' love and munchkin live there, and i need to see her.  STAT.

then i could hit 2 birds with an east coast stone.  i could see megan in DC, and maybe bop over to hershey to visit annie.  that one is so efficient it's almost wrong to ignore.

and then i reeeeally have been neglecting all my beloved associates in greece, italy, germany....