We decided to go boating with a bunch of friends on Saturday. A total of six couples on four boats. We headed out to a quiet cove on the California side about 1/2 way down the lake, and tied all of the boats together for a relaxing day on the water.
Steve and I hitched a ride with our friends Tim and Cheryl, and we brought lunch for everyone as our repayment for the day. Tim has a small propane grill that he set up to grill the burgers and dogs for everyone.
Girl Time! It was an unplanned turquoise day! Don't we look cute!
The weather was perfect, and we really enjoyed the day with all of these great people! The longer we stay here, the more people we are getting to know, and the more fun we are having, but we know that tomorrow will be hard to be away from home.
Sunday morning we decided that the best way to make Easter feel like Easter would be to make an Easter brunch for two. So we put together a nice healthy vegetarian quiche.
While it was baking, we received a facetime call from our youngest daughter and Steve's parents, who are all spending the day together. It was the great to talk to them and "see" them. It almost made it feel like we were there! Oh man is this hard!
But once our quiche was done, we sat on our back porch in the perfect Arizona weather and had our Easter brunch, just the two of us.
But the day was still feeling empty. We are so family oriented, and have had family at every holiday since we were married 31 years ago, so if this post sounds like I'm a little home sick today, it's probably because I am! But I am also so thankful for the time we spent with all of our family so recently!
After doing a little bit of cross stitching, and Steve playing with his guitar, we decided it was time to get out of the house for awhile. So we jumped in the Polaris RZR and headed to the desert. We rode the hills for awhile, then decided to head back into town and out onto the island. The day was beautiful, and being out of the house seemed to help lift my sadness a bit.
I even drove a little bit, although I prefer to just ride.
We have decided that we love having the RZR registered as street legal. We enjoy driving around town just about as much as we enjoy riding in the desert or the dunes. It is just a great way to get outside and see what's going on around town.
We finally headed back to the house where we enjoyed a yummy steak salad for dinner, complete with sprouts that I have been growing in my jar.
After dinner it looked like we might have a nice sunset, so we jumped back in the RZR and headed back up to the desert to see how it looked. Since the desert is only about 5 minutes from our house, it's so easy to do.
The bugs were out thick but there were no mosquitoes, so it wasn't a big deal. We don't have mosquitoes here, ever, and that makes me very happy!
The sunset did end up being really good, so we just kept moving around and taking pictures from different angels. It was a lot of fun watching darkness fall from the desert.
As we started heading back to town, the lights were coming on in the city. I love seeing the city lights.
We also enjoyed seeing a few ocotillos in the dark of Easter night. We can't grow Easter lilies here, so the ocotillo will just have to do.
Today we realized that we can't have our cake and eat it too. In order to enjoy the simple life and the beautiful weather that we love about Lake Havasu, we will have to miss out on a few holidays with our family. We also realize that even if we were in Colorado full time, the kids will probably eventually leave, and we will still be longing for them during the holidays. It's definitely a point of transition for us, and hopefully it will get easier as time goes on.
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