I took my first post-baby-solo trip to Albuquerque to visit my college BFF, and boy was it both fun AND exhausting! The flight down was quiet, meditative, and I spent my time sitting in airports staring contentedly into space, writing in my journal and reading. I got in around 5pm, and so we were able to catch up before her husband got off work . We then headed out for some yummy authentic New Mexican food and margaritas!
Saturday morning she got to share her hot yoga class with me, and then we headed out to the old part of the town (aka the tourist trap), and spent our time taking silly pictures and finding hidden away gems, like a handmade soap shop where I was able to buy Boof a boar belly shaving brush and mint/hemp shaving soap!
After being in the city for about 24 hours, I started to feel really sick. Apparently the altitude difference (Albuqueque is a mile above sea level and Seattle is 500 feet. Ha!) was starting to affect me. Laura said that when other people have come to visit they’ve had the same experiences…it felt like I was hungover, with a headache and felt really tired, spacey, and even a little bit panicky…though that was probably the anxiety taking over. I tossed and turned and wished I was back home in bed, snuggled up with Boof and Potamus and Scrummy in our king size memory foam bed!
The flight home was torturous for the first leg, but then I got to occupy my time with the Seahawks game on the last 2 legs of the trip! I’m so thankful that I got the opportunity to spend time just being myself, instead of being a mom or a worker or a wife. It was almost like being back in college…almost.
boof & monk-monk 
You are looking amazing! Is all that hot yoga paying off or what?
Fuck yeah baby!!! 🙂
So jealous. . . I’m all like Jabba the Hut up in here. Today I did some jumping jacks while I was at the playground with my daughter and thought I was going to die!
The hot yoga is the only thing that’s helped me lose weight post baby. It’s seriously amazing
I would seriously love to do yoga, but I don’t know when I would leave the house to do it. It is a hot mess to leave both kids and I would worry the entire time. Plus, I have to put on like three sports bras to exercise and after all that I am just wiped out. Yup, I’m whining. . .
Try it. I had no idea I could do it either. My friend who goes with me has two kids and works full time…she said after going a few times she stopped felling guilty because she’s a better parent after yoga