The Rest Of My Year

Ten days until we leave for Iowa!!!!!!! I know most people don't get excited about visiting Iowa, but I can't wait. I lived there for 15 years, after all, and I haven't been back since 2003. I have a list of places to eat and drink that is a mile long, and I am so glad to have Chris to accompany on this drunken quest for weight gain. Sean and Charlotte's wedding will be the highlight of the trip, of course, but having 2 days off from work ranks right up there.

Aside from anticipating our trip to Iowa, we are also anxiously anticipating Steph and Tom's wedding, which is the following weekend. My parents will be in town for that, and we will all be staying in the mountains, at a resort with a heated outdoor pool, oh my! It will be a great weekend.

Less than 2 weeks after that, it's my birthday! Woo!!!! It's a Friday night birthday, and oh shit, I just realized that if our baby-making plans go accordingly my next birthday will be a Saturday birthday and I won't be able to drink. Mother fucker! But anyway, this year it is on a Friday, and I am excited to go out to dinner and sleep in the next day.

Three weekends after that is Chris' fall break from school, and I think we are going to go camping at Zion National Park for the weekend, and then going to Las Vegas for a couple of days. It will be a vacation of extremes - calm yet obnoxious. But that kind of sums up my personality, so I will love it.

Three weekends after that is Halloween, which is hands-down my favorite time of year. We will carve pumpkins and get costumes together, go to a haunted corn maze, and possibly go on the haunted hay ride that I want to do every year and never do. We will rake leaves and play in them, and then totally judge the neighbors who have not raked their leaves.

A month following that Chris and I will be off to Denver and/or Wyoming for Thanksgiving. We haven't been to visit his side of the family for the holidays since 2004, so we are overdue and looking forward to it.

Christmas will come a month later, and we are staying in Salt Lake City for it. We decided a couple of years ago that we would only travel for one "holiday" during the season, and spend the other one at home (and whomever's side we didn't see that year are welcome to come here, of course). This year we only get Christmas day itself off from work, so we decided to make Thanksgiving the traveling holiday. So it will be a quiet Christmas, kind of an appropriate end to a busy year.

New Year's Eve will follow closely, which is our dating anniversary. Five years, but it will probably be anti-climactic since we are married now. Sometimes we go somewhere for New Year's, but like Christmas, we only have New Year's Day off, so I'm thinking we will stay here to usher in 2008.

So there you have our plans for the rest of the year. Chris will be in school during it, too, so I imagine he will be busy and we won't end up adding anything to these plans. I'm curious to see how it goes, it might be an adjustment for us, who are accustomed to having nothing but free time. Wish us luck. :)

posted by Ami @ Tuesday, August 14, 2007