In a few months our
lives will change when we will have a new person to love in our family. We are giddy with excitement and can hardly
contain ourselves. Actually it has begun to consume a lot of our thoughts. We know that even as excited as we are, we cannot even begin to comprehend the love we will have when we see this little
one. We are starting to realize how hard it will be for us to have our kids live hours away. We are thinking about what kind of awesome
uncles our sons will be. When we are out
and about we are fascinated with all the darling girl stuff, and we are
already making plans about the things we will do together in the future. That prompted this recent purchase by her grandpa.
We are planning that she'll love going to the lake like her mommy did.
We just returned from a super crazy vacation. We ate dim sum in Hong Kong, a few days later had a traditional Thai massage on a beach in Phuket, then a few days later were zipping over the rain forest canopy in Costa Rica. After 50+ hours in an airplane, it felt a little like the amazing race. Not exactly the itinerary many people would select (me included), but sometimes an opportunity presents itself and you go with it.
I wish I would have prepared a little better for our trip. If I ever do something like this again, I will. I will study up ecology, botony, and the history of things we might see. I wonder how much more I could have learned. Everytime we travel, both Ray and I wish we could speak a foreign language. Regardless, it was so much fun. I find it so interesting to see how people in other parts of the world live.
If you ever have the opportunity to go to Costa Rica, do it! Not only is it beautiful there, the weather was perfect, and the people are lovely and made us feel so welcome. They have a saying there, "Pura Vida", that means pure life. That pretty much sums up how we felt while we were there and it doesn't get much better than that!
