...starting with 4 months! Seem like a long time period to be counting down to something? Yeah, I know. Usually countdowns for long time periods like that are for weddings or births of babies. But today I started planning a prospective trip that Jake and I want to take in May, and I'm already stupidly excited. It's also the countdown to when I'll be done with school...FOREVER. It's sad, really, that the semester hasn't even started and I'm already counting down the days to when it's over. But I get anxiety just thinking about what is coming this semester, mostly comprehensive exams. I'll save that for another post, because I don't want to dampen my own hyped-up attitude about our trip.
We've known for a while that we want to go on a trip for our first wedding anniversary and my graduation, but were being pretty wishy-washy about the destination and never sat down and seriously started planning it. About a month ago, I came up with the idea of going to Northern California, as neither of us have been there, specifically the Redwood Coast. So I did a little Googling some main attractions and places to stay and ordered a free Redwood Coast travel guide. It finally came in the mail last night, and today, that's really all I've done. Sat on my butt and roughly planned out our trip and budget and obsessed over the scenic and adventure attractions. We're going to fly to San Francisco, get a rental car, and stay at 3 or 4 different areas for 3 or 4 nights at a time along the Redwood Coast and famously scenic highway 101. I so look forward to the hikes into the giant redwood forests and walks into green groves in Humboldt Redwoods State Park and Redwood National Park, and of course, driving through the drive-through tree! We also might see and stay in Old Town Eureka and/or Trinidad. All of this, and graduate school will be behind me! We're trying to figure out a way to get our wedding cake tier to California, keep it from going bad, and be able to eat it on our anniversary. Because, well, our first anniversary only comes once ever, and we must follow that tradition!
I CAN'T WAIT, and hope everything works out!
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