365 Days in Washington

Fairhaven is one of those towns that makes you want to settle down and have a couple of kids. During the summer, the entire town meanders around with gelato and dogs on leashes and coffee while the sun sets into the ocean in the distance. Everyone wears shorts and flip-flops and has no where to be but where they are. I wish there was a town like Fairhaven in Los Angeles for us to move back to. Tonight is Movie in the Park night  and all the kids on summer vacation are snuggled under blankets, feeling all grown up to be out without their parents. One group of youngsters had pockets full of one dollar bills and they took turns buying kettle corn and cotton candy for each other. The highschoolers to our left were not so entertaining, however. Lots of loud, obnoxious shrieks and grotesque PDA. I hate highschoolers.
Tonight's movie is How to Train Your Dragon  and I couldn't be more excited. Will and I saw it in the theater when it came out but Kelly was seeing it for the first time. Eeep! Since I had to work all day, Kelly and Will prepared an awesome picnic: Bacon fig and goat cheese hoagies, fresh, local fruit salad (pineapple, blueberries, apples, walnuts, bananas, oranges and peaches) and cherry hand pies. Hand pies might be my new favorite thing. I want to make a million of them and wrap them in butcher paper and hand them out to everyone I meet so they can understand the happiness I feel. They are made with fresh black cherries as well as dried cherries, sugar, corn starch, all wrapped into individual puff pastry pockets just small enough to hold in your hand. Oh my goodness. So delicious. We ate everything in about five minutes.

Since summer is officially in full swing, the sun was still shining bright at 9:30 so the movie was set to start at 10:15. While we lounged on the grass, with our smuggled wine in hand, a local artist played her guitar and sang about her garden and the immigration laws in Arizona. Her hoakiness seemed fitting for the amount of kids that turned out for the movie. I was ecstatic when she finished and it was just dark enough to start the show. Everyone instantly hushed and snuggled closer together, ready for the intense emotion this movie delivers. Kelly, Will and I were on the edge of our blanket, tears welled in our eyes and silly, joyous smiles on our dorky faces. We love sappy kids movies. I started getting nervous as a few rain drops splashed on my face about ten minutes into the movie. The clouds had moved and I wondered if we would get rained out. Luckily it only sprinkled and my hoodie was enough to keep me dry. That never would have happened in California. We would have drown!