Harmony made me busy!

Harmony...as in this kind of Harmony

I shut off my phone so Dav has all pics. However, the pics of Kinky and Dennis Kucinich were from me : )

Since we're more limited to where we can go with Tesla, we're totally hitting outdoor festivals this summer. Pack up the RV, head out for a long weekend, dance outdoors, and watch Tesla have just as much fun (she loves the attention she gets).

Only thing is...packing up the RV, going, coming back (at 11:30 Sunday night!), and unpacking is actually a significant additional load to the daily rhythm of maintaining a household with a baby. I have to be super efficient with my time...as in starting laundry when I wake up, unpack while I dress for work, water plants while I brush my teeth, etc. Since the normal rhythm is pretty packed as it is, anything additional reverberates.

I'm still not used to that. We want to enjoy all that's out there...but yes, you need stamina. Fortunately, Dav and I love going out enough that we both are into making the effort...and now, Tuesday night, after 2 nights of sleeping in our home bed and busting my ass getting things back in order, I know it was totally worth it. But I do have to take a deep breath and think, "here we go..." when I think of the upcoming Raindance festival we have...and then Burning Man.

Don't get me wrong. It's SO wonderful when outdoors...walking around with our baby Tesla, meeting cool folks, hanging out in the sun, letting Telsa feel free in the grass, and enjoying 'camping' in our RV (which I continue to paint and have bigger and bigger ideas for as it becomes a giant canvas that I am really excited about; I already have a Sunday date with Michelle to just spend painting together).

For Burning Man, we're gonna be Rangers which will be a whole new - and deeper - chapter to our experience.

It's just quite a physical effort now.

However, this is what we want Tesla to know. The beauty, sharing, and learning that these events bring is such a rejuvenation.

One note about Harmony. We went cuz it's outdoors, so we could hang with Tesla on the periphery enjoying the music with her. But all the night stuff - which my goodness was a total party scene! - was indoors. So Dav and I (with our friends who were there too) took turns hanging outside with Tesla snoozing in the stroller, going inside for like 10 minutes at a time. I went in...got into the music, but then missed Dav so came right back out. Harmony should have made it clear that the night stuff was indoors. Sheesh. Think about parents, k??

The unexpected part was that there was A LOT of vending. It was organic foods and hand-made clothing & jewelry so not offensive, but weird. I'm not usually into vending. Yet since the stuff was so amazing, we spent ...well, a lot... on some really original nice clothing. Especially for Dav since it's really hard to find original men's stuff in stores. He got amazing pants and a really neat vest. I got pants too and an absolutely fantastic vest (ignore my hat head and no make-up please).