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| View of Catalina Island from Venice Beach |
Life goes on... And so does our honeymoon. Two weeks vacation in Tempe (with a quick trip to LA) at the end of March is wonderful. I am so blessed to have such wonderful family and friends to return home to from Europe. My wife and I were able to read notes written for us by our wedding guests and to eat the top of our wedding cake since this trip was only a few weeks after our one year anniversary. The cake was deelish and the notes were personal. Best of all we read thru the notes after breakfast while enjoying the awesome weather on my back porch and feeling like we were on top of the world.
Technically, the honeymoon is over, but we both are so thankful each and every day to have each other that nothing is mundane. I don't have a "daily grind" despite returning to work after nearly two years off. We don't necessarily text or talk during the workday but as soon as I walk in the door at night I am hers and she is mine. We have gotten past planning out our vacations and now get to plan for the rest of our lives together.
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| View of Phoenix Mountains - Awesome Weather |
Our thoughts especially returned to our happy wedding day as we were priveliged enough to take part in a wedding of two of our best friends, my wife's brother and his bride. It was a grand event that celebrated their love and commitment to each other and made us hope that they will experience the same profound happiness that we have together.
I am composing this entry in the air enroute to our new(ish) home in London. Although this living abroad is "the opportunity of a lifetime" we will both always consider Phoenix metro and particularly Tempe as our home. We ate at hip new restaurants, saw a sunrise while eating breakfast on a boulder at South Mountain, bicycled leisurely to breakfast 95% via canal path, paddled a canoe around Tempe Town Lake, and unfortunately got caught in a traffic jam that turned a 25 minute trip into 100 minutes. Nevertheless we continue to believe in our hometown and simply prefer to bike, walk, or paddle to avoid future traffic jams.
I am composing this entry in the air enroute to our new(ish) home in London. Although this living abroad is "the opportunity of a lifetime" we will both always consider Phoenix metro and particularly Tempe as our home. We ate at hip new restaurants, saw a sunrise while eating breakfast on a boulder at South Mountain, bicycled leisurely to breakfast 95% via canal path, paddled a canoe around Tempe Town Lake, and unfortunately got caught in a traffic jam that turned a 25 minute trip into 100 minutes. Nevertheless we continue to believe in our hometown and simply prefer to bike, walk, or paddle to avoid future traffic jams.
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| View of Tempe Town Lake and Papago from Canoe |
The incumbent leaders are stressing us out with the extreme agendas that are catching international headlines, and making us hope reason will have prevailed by the time we return. Then we hope to bring the best ideas we have seen from the foreign cities that we visit back with us to add to Tempe's natural beauty and college town vibe.
Carpe Diem.
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