Today was the day!!! Not only my birthday, but the highly anticipated trip to Monterey. I went to the Monterey Bay Aquarium for work a very long time ago, and have been following their twitter for some time. I was so excited to go with my friends for once! We woke up early-ish to get […]
After dinner, we headed over to the Vancouver Christmas Market held nearby. Before I was born, my mom and dad were stationed in Germany for several years. Growing up she always told me about the christmas markets in Germany, and how magical they were. I was finally able to experience the real thing in 2019, […]
Finally after three full days of dreary overcast, the sun came out.. Not a cloud in the sky! It was our last day in Canada, and to be honest I was feeling a little under the weather. My throat usually hurts from hotel AC towards the end of a trip, so I chalked it up […]
It’s finally the day we head up to Vancouver for a one-week Christmas trip! We’ve been planning for a couple of weeks, and while I’ve been nervous about traveling outside of work, I was really looking forward to visiting Vancouver again. I woke up around 8:30AM, all packing finished the night before, and made a […]
The past week I’ve been in a daze of sleeping, pain, and a heartbeat so slow I wondered if it would stop altogether. I got my wisdom teeth taken out on the 15th, so my schedule has been something like this, give or take a few hours: 8AM: eat breakfast, take 1 amoxycillin, 1 ibuprofen, […]
After getting back to the car, we headed to the Courthouse Towers, which was just on the other end of the Park Avenue trail. You can walk the whole way and back to the Courthouse Towers from the Park Avenue viewpoint, but we opted to only go half-way since it was just the beginning of […]
Maybe thanks to the exhaustion of getting here, I slept early and woke up right at 6AM after what felt like the best sleep I’ve had in a long time. The three of us went down to eat breakfast in the hotel, then got ready for our full day in Arches. Our first stop was […]
After months of anticipation and years of trying to plan a trip together, it was finally time to get on our flights to Utah! Or so I thought… I got ready in the early hours of the morning, what always feels like the time where the rest of the world is still sleeping, and headed […]
I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t taking everything extremely hard. Habits you don’t realize you had when you shared a space with your companion for so long sink like pebbles in your chest, followed by the faintest “oh, right…” Little things piling up, like tiptoeing in the morning to quietly open the fridge, […]
The sun has set and risen, and for the first time in 21 beautiful, loving years, you are not here by my side. When I’m left alone in the silence, thoughts trickle down into my heart and I wonder. Did I kiss your forehead enough times? Did I hug you long enough, as close to […]