Last night, we slept on the full bed.  Transitioning from the California king to a full bed wasn’t that bad but I will miss the luxury of sprawling out when I sleep.  There is going to be a lot of spooning from here on out.

It is finally hitting me.  I had dinner with my friend Judith last night and there were moments when I became very present that I will not see her for a long time.  I am going to meet up with Carina and, hopefully, Tammy today to also say “good bye”.  All this is making it much more real!

Sebastien has also been making comments about leaving his comforts.  This has been a very comfortable house for us.  Now that we are leaving tomorrow I am realizing how wonderful this puffin nest was for our first place together.  Where we got engaged.  When we return to San Diego we will live up in North County so this is also the end of my time in OB.

This is a picture from Guy’s house taken about a week or so ago.  Guy, Megan, and Pepa had a gathering of sorts to celebrate our engagement and to say “bye”.  I tried to find a picture of our puffin nest but it was not on the mini computer.  Which is what I am operating on now that I sold my other computer.  Lots of minimizing going on in our lives at the moment.

I am really going to try hard to post often.  My guess is that it maybe hard since now Sebastien and I will be sharing this computer.

We had a yard sale this past weekend.  We really needed to sell the motorcycle and the California King bed and a ton of other stuff.   We did pretty good on the little stuff but didn’t sell the bike or the bed.  I think that we are going to take the bed to Good Will.  Here are some pictures of the festivities.

A few more days till we leave for Arizona to drop off my car.  November 3rd we will be on our way to Brisbane, Australia.

When we returned from dinner I laid down on the couch and was playing with my iPod Touch.  While I was doing my brain exercises Sebastien came up behind me and was petting my head.  Again, not unusual.

But then he came and kinda sat down on the floor next to me and said, “I lied to you today.  I wasn’t craving sushi I wanted to go celebrate.”  He then proceed to get down on one knee and I really couldn’t tell you what he said next because I was waving my hands and giggling with excitement.   Of course I said, “YES!!!”.

Sebastien picked out the most perfect ring for me!  It is a band style ring with three rows of diamonds laying flat.  I love it!  We had it sized the next day and now it will not come off when I surf!

The first person we called was my GiaGia (Greek for grandmother) and she was very excited!  My mom and George were coming out on Friday for my birthday so we decided to wait till then to tell them.  Sebastien had told his family a few days earlier and I emailed his mom (thank you google translate) about my excitement.

As of today we have 17 more days before we depart for our puffin trip which we are now calling our honeymoon (before we get married).  We haven’t yet decided if we are going to get married while on our trip or here in San Diego.  Everyone is very excited for us as are we!

Any wedding ideas, places, advise is appreciated!