so we’ve been pretty much snowed into our house since last thursday, you know, snowmaggedeon and all that. on thursday, as the snow started its descent upon us, justin reminded me that he has next week off. you see, he has to request his days off at the very beginning of the year and not knowing what else to do with that time we figured we’d take the week of president’s day off (4 days to take off instead of 5).
“so what are we going to do that week?” justin asked me. “well, we could go to texas,” i said half-jokingly. justin served his mission in san antonio and austin 10 years ago and has never been back. in the meantime we have been back to my mission areas in italy twice, france 3 times, and circled the globe. he’s always wanted to go back, and i’ve always wanted to go. so we planned this awesome road trip through the south, going all the way to san antonio, with stops in austin, new orleans, atlanta – that would take a week. we were totally pumped, had motels and restaurants picked out, and were ready to go…until last night, when we started to worry that our car wouldn’t be able to make the 3000+ trip, not to mention the fact that with the itinerary we had lined up we wouldn’t be able to make many stops to get elliott out of the car and save our sanity and his.
so we started looking up plane tickets. wow, it is expensive to fly to texas. and the cheapest option would have limited our trip to only 3 days and we realized that we just weren’t going to be able to have the texas trip we wanted to have. so with great sadness we scratched our trip.
however, we need to get out of town. so we did a search for the cheapest flights out of d.c. and amidst the cheap flights to upstate new york (we’re already suffering enough from seasonal affective disorder, thanks) and florida, was a cheap flight to arizona. so, after making sure it was alright with brandon and julie, we’re going to tucson for a week! while it isn’t texas, we’ll still get to achieve many of our goals for this trip – we’ll be out of the cold, we’ll get some good mexican food, and BONUS we’ll probably get to go to mexico!
and did i mention that the forecast for next week is sunny and mid-seventies all week long? oh man, this is going to be heaven…
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