After my workout this morning Charles and I left for a five day trip on Orcas island to celebrate our 10th anniversary, sans kiddos! There is nothing like a travel adventure to keep things lively in a marriage. After about 7 hours on I5 (which was nothing short of a parking lot in parts) we made it to within two miles of the ferry terminal where cars were lined up waiting for one of the two remaining ferries for the night. To pass the time while we waited, I jumped on my bike and road the two miles down to the terminal where I was nonchalantly told by an attendant that the last two ferries were already full to cars, and only walk on passengers were allowed. Our two options were to wait in line through the night in hopes of getting on a 6 am ferry (while our romantic cottage sat empty on Orcas) or to ditch the car and bike onto the ferry (this is where my training pays off...we had our bikes of course!). We opted for the romantic cottage, and there started an adventure we wont forget! We drove down to the ferry parking lot, left nearly everything we had packed in the car, and put the bare essentials into a rolling suitcase and a few shoulder bags. Our biggest obstacle was figuring out how we would get from the terminal in Orcas (the ferry was scheduled to arrive at 1 am!) to our cottage which was seven miles away up and down many hills in the pitch black without headlights on our bikes! Charles began visioning our bikes with the only two flashlights we had in the car strapped to our handlebars with duct tape....fortunately, we did not have to test his ingenuity because the inn keeper agreed to pick us up with her pickup truck.
So, we did indeed make it to our romantic cottage....a bit later and lighter than expected, but with all that we needed.
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