The final day...I expected to feel bummed today, having such a good thing come to an end. But I realized I wasn't sad at all. This was pretty close to the longest time we've spent together and we are by far much more like the grown adults we are supposed to be. We have both gone through (are going through) some pretty intense stuff since the last time we were together. The kids are old enough that we aren't bound to them and we got to be ourselves a little bit too. This visit felt like the start of something really really beautiful. Leanne has grown to be a type of friend I've never had before. She's that type of best friend you had in high school where you never thought you could function without them sitting next to you in English, but we are so much more mature than high school and the level of drama in high school steals from relationships in so many ways. We've managed to find that blistering awesome friendship that isn't hampered and effected by immaturity. Unless we decided to let down our hair and be immature (in a responsible way, of course).
We stopped at the most awesome home baked cookie shop ever for some Halloween cookies. From there we went to the Morris Thompson Cultural Center to take in a little more "Alaska" before we headed to the airport where the kids were excited to play with the dinosaurs at the arrival gate. Only 3ish more weeks until they can come back and play with the dinosaurs while we wait for our really exciting arrival!
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